Words Like SILHOUETTE

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SILHOUETTE.

5 Alternative Words Similar to silhouette

1 Drawing Noun      Synonym Words Like Drawing
2 Outline Noun      Synonym Words Like Outline
3 Interpret Verb      Synonym Words Like Interpret
4 Project Verb      Synonym Words Like Project
5 Represent Verb      Synonym Words Like Represent

9 definitions of silhouette

1 Originally, a portrait in black or some other uniform tint, sometimes varied as to the bailor other parts by lighter lines or a lightening of shade, showing the profile as cast by a candle on a sheet of paper; hence, any opaque portrait, design, or image in profile.
2 Opaque representation or exhibition in profile; the figure made by the shadow or a shadowy outline of an object; shadow.
3 To represent or exhibit in silhouette; make or bring out a shaded profile or outline view of: used chiefly or only in the past participle.
4 An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
5 To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
6 project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette
7 a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
8 an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
9 represent by a silhouette
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