What does paint a picture mean?

paint a picture means "call to mind".

What is another word for paint a picture?

Close synonyms include suggest, evoke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paint a picture a common word?

paint a picture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

paint a picture — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
call to mind
“this remark evoked sadness”
Synonymssuggest evoke
Broaderexpress
Narrowersmack incriminate

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