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description
Overview of noun description
The noun description has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (29) description, verbal description -- (a statement that represents something in words)
2. description -- (the act of describing something)
3. description -- (sort or variety; "every description of book was there")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun description
3 senses of description
Sense 1
description, verbal description
=> statement
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
description
=> speech act
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
description
=> kind, sort, form, variety
=> category
=> concept, conception, construct
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun description
2 of 3 senses of description
Sense 1
description, verbal description
=> job description
=> specification, spec
=> word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation
Sense 2
description
=> characterization, characterisation
=> label
=> particularization, particularisation, detailing
=> sketch, vignette
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun description
3 senses of description
Sense 1
description, verbal description
=> statement
Sense 2
description
=> speech act
Sense 3
description
=> kind, sort, form, variety
Antonyms of noun description
Member Holonyms of noun description
Substance Holonyms of noun description
Part Holonyms of noun description
Member Meronyms of noun description
Substance Meronyms of noun description
Part Meronyms of noun description
Meronyms of noun description
Holonyms of noun description
Attributes of noun description
Derived Forms of noun description
1 of 3 senses of description
Sense 2
description
RELATED TO>(verb) describe#2
=> report, describe, account
RELATED TO>(verb) describe#1
=> describe, depict, draw
Domain of noun description
Domain Terms of noun description
Familiarity of noun description
description used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun description
3 senses of description
Sense 1
description, verbal description
> statement
=> summary, sum-up
=> pleading
=> amendment
=> thing
=> truth, true statement
=> description, verbal description
=> declaration
=> announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration
=> Bill of Rights
=> formula
=> mathematical statement
=> bid, bidding
=> word
=> explanation, account
=> explicandum, explanandum
=> explanans
=> value statement
=> representation
=> solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent
=> answer, reply, response
=> announcement, promulgation
=> prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication
=> proposition
=> quotation
=> falsehood, falsity, untruth
=> understatement
=> reservation, qualification
=> cautious statement
=> comment, commentary
=> remark, comment
=> rhetorical question
=> misstatement
=> restatement
=> agreement, understanding
=> condition, term
=> estimate
=> formula, chemical formula
=> representation
=> declaration
=> assurance
=> recital
=> negation
Sense 2
description
> speech act
=> congratulation, felicitation
=> slander
=> proposal, proposition
=> command, bid, bidding, dictation
=> agreement
=> citation
=> disagreement
=> offer, offering
=> request, asking
=> reply, response
=> description
=> affirmation, assertion, statement
=> denial
=> rejection
=> objection
=> informing, making known
=> disclosure, revelation, revealing
=> promise
=> boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
=> naming
=> challenge
=> explanation
=> denunciation, denouncement
=> address, speech
=> resignation
Sense 3
description
> kind, sort, form, variety
=> description
=> type
=> antitype
=> art form
=> style
=> flavor, flavour
=> color, colour
=> species
=> genus
=> brand, make
=> genre
=> like, ilk
=> manner
=> model
=> stripe
=> like, the like, the likes of
Meronyms of noun description
3 senses of description
Holonyms of noun description
Grep of noun description
description
job description
verbal description
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