canvas

The word “canvas” has 2 syllables: can-vas

It's pronounced as /ˈkæn.vəs/


What is synonym and antonym for canvas?

In the thesaurus, “canvas” has 35 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for canvas along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for canvas

  • acrylic
  • aquarelle
  • art
  • artwork
  • awning cloth
  • diptych
  • distemper
  • drawing
  • duck
  • etching
  • finger painting
  • fly
  • fresco
  • gouache
  • masterpiece
  • mural
  • oil
  • oil painting
  • painting
  • panorama
  • pastel
  • picture
  • piece
  • portrait
  • sailcloth
  • shade
  • showpiece
  • sketch
  • still life
  • tarp
  • tarpaulin
  • tempera
  • tenting
  • triptych
  • watercolor

Meanings of canvas

  • noun
    1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
    2. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
    3. A basis for creative work.
    4. A region on which graphics can be rendered.
    5. Sails in general.
    6. A tent.
    7. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
    8. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
    9. Alternative spelling of canvass.
  • verb
    1. To cover an area or object with canvas.
    2. Alternative spelling of canvass.

Example Sentences

  • She painted a beautiful landscape on the large canvas.
  • The artist stared at the blank canvas, imagining his next masterpiece.
  • They used a strong canvas to make the tent durable.
  • His emotions poured out onto the canvas with every brushstroke.
  • The sailor adjusted the canvas sails before setting off.

On this page you'll find 35 synonyms or another words to canvas, such as: acrylic, aquarelle, art, artwork, awning cloth, diptych, distemper.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

umbrella

  • arbor
  • awning
  • bower
  • brolly
  • bumbershoot
  • canopy
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • ceiling
  • cover
  • dome
  • fly
  • gamp
  • guard
  • marquee
  • parapluie
  • parasol
  • pavilion
  • pergola
  • roof
  • screen
  • shade
  • shelter
  • shield
  • sunshade
  • tent

painting

  • abstract design
  • acrylic
  • airbrushing
  • aquarelle
  • art
  • art work
  • bepainting
  • brightening
  • brushing
  • calcimining
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • characterizing
  • checkering
  • cityscape
  • coating
  • coloring
  • composition
  • covering
  • dappling
  • darkening
  • daubing
  • decorating
  • defining
  • delineating
  • demonstrating
  • depicting
  • depiction
  • describing
  • design
  • diptych
  • displaying
  • distemper
  • drafting
  • drawing
  • dyeing
  • embrowning
  • enameling
  • etching
  • exhibiting
  • finger painting
  • flecking
  • fresco
  • gouache
  • hinting
  • illustrating
  • imaging
  • labeling
  • labelling
  • landscape
  • lightening
  • likeness
  • limning
  • marbling
  • masterpiece
  • mottling
  • mural
  • narrating
  • oil
  • oil painting
  • outlining
  • panorama
  • pastel
  • patterning
  • picture
  • picturing
  • pigmenting
  • polychroming
  • portrait
  • portrayal
  • portraying
  • qualifying
  • reciting
  • recounting
  • redescribing
  • rehearsing
  • reimaging
  • relating
  • rendering
  • reporting
  • representation
  • representing
  • seascape
  • setting out
  • showing
  • showpiece
  • silhouetting
  • sketch
  • sketching
  • specking
  • speckling
  • splashing
  • staining
  • streaking
  • striating
  • striping
  • suggesting
  • summarizing
  • summing up
  • telling
  • tempera
  • tincturing
  • tingeing
  • tinging
  • tinting
  • touching off
  • tracing
  • triptych
  • variegating
  • varnishing
  • vignetting
  • water color
  • watercolor

query

  • annoy
  • anxiety
  • ask
  • besiege
  • bombard
  • call
  • call in question
  • call into question
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • catechize
  • challenge
  • combat
  • compunction
  • concern
  • contest
  • cross-examine
  • cross-question
  • debrief
  • disbelief
  • disbelieve
  • dispute
  • distrust
  • distrustfulness
  • doubt
  • dubiety
  • dubitation
  • enquire
  • examination
  • examine
  • exploration
  • fight
  • give the third degree to
  • grill
  • harass
  • hit up
  • hound
  • impeach
  • impugn
  • incertitude
  • incredulity
  • inquest
  • inquire
  • inquiry
  • inquisition
  • interrogate
  • interrogating
  • interrogation
  • interrogatory
  • investigation
  • knock
  • misdoubt
  • misgiving
  • mistrust
  • mistrustfulness
  • niggle
  • objection
  • oppose
  • oppugn
  • paranoia
  • pester
  • pick the brains of
  • poll
  • probe
  • probing
  • problem
  • protest
  • pump
  • put out a feeler question
  • qualm
  • question
  • questioning
  • questionnaire
  • quiz
  • request
  • research
  • reservation
  • resist
  • scruple
  • skepticism
  • study
  • survey
  • suspect
  • suspicion
  • sweat
  • test the waters
  • tremor
  • unbelief
  • uncertainty
  • wariness

quest

  • adventure
  • ask
  • badger
  • bespeak
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • chase
  • claim
  • command
  • crusade
  • delving
  • demand
  • desire
  • dun
  • enjoin
  • enterprise
  • exact
  • examination
  • expedition
  • exploration
  • forage
  • harass
  • hound
  • hunt
  • importune
  • impose
  • inquest
  • inquiry
  • inquisition
  • investigation
  • invite
  • invoke
  • journey
  • look for
  • look up
  • mission
  • necessitate
  • need
  • pilgrimage
  • probe
  • pursual
  • pursue
  • pursuit
  • quarry
  • recon
  • reconnaissance
  • request
  • require
  • requisition
  • research
  • scout
  • search
  • seek
  • seeking
  • shakedown
  • solicit
  • survey
  • sweep
  • take
  • urge
  • voyage
  • want
  • warrant

question

  • Q and A
  • absorb
  • affair
  • analyze
  • annoy
  • argument
  • ask
  • ask about
  • assimilate
  • basis
  • believe
  • besiege
  • body
  • bombard
  • bottom
  • brainteaser
  • bulk
  • burden
  • call
  • call in question
  • call into question
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • cast doubt upon
  • catechism
  • catechize
  • cavil
  • censure
  • centerpiece
  • challenge
  • chew on
  • chew over
  • cogitate
  • combat
  • complaint
  • compunction
  • conceive
  • conclude
  • conflict
  • confusion
  • consider
  • consideration
  • contemplate
  • content
  • contention
  • contest
  • controvert
  • conundrum
  • core
  • count
  • criticism
  • cross-examine
  • cross-question
  • crux
  • debate
  • debrief
  • defiance
  • deliberate
  • demur
  • demurral
  • demurrer
  • difficulty
  • digest
  • disbelieve
  • discount
  • discredit
  • discussion
  • disobedience
  • dispute
  • dissent
  • distrust
  • distrustfulness
  • doubt
  • dubiety
  • dubitation
  • enigma
  • enquire
  • entertain
  • essence
  • essential
  • essentiality
  • examination
  • examine
  • exception
  • exploration
  • explore
  • expostulation
  • eye
  • fight
  • fundamental
  • fuss
  • generality
  • gist
  • give the third degree
  • give the third degree to
  • go over
  • grill
  • grist
  • harass
  • hassle
  • heart
  • hesitate
  • hit
  • hit up
  • hold out for
  • hound
  • idea
  • impeach
  • impugn
  • incertitude
  • indetermination
  • inquest
  • inquire
  • inquiring
  • inquiry
  • inquisition
  • interrogate
  • interrogating
  • interrogation
  • interrogative
  • interrogatory
  • interview
  • investigate
  • investigation
  • issue
  • kernel
  • keynote
  • kick
  • kick around
  • look at
  • main
  • make inquiry
  • marrow
  • mass
  • matter
  • meditate
  • misdoubt
  • misgiving
  • mistrust
  • mistrustfulness
  • misunderstanding
  • motif
  • motion
  • motive
  • mystery
  • negate
  • net
  • niggle
  • nub
  • nubbin
  • nucleus
  • objection
  • opine
  • oppose
  • oppugn
  • perpend
  • pester
  • petition
  • pick the brains of
  • pith
  • pivot
  • point
  • poll
  • ponder
  • poser
  • probe
  • probing
  • problem
  • proposal
  • proposition
  • protest
  • pry
  • pump
  • purport
  • purpose
  • put through the wringer
  • put to the question
  • puzzle
  • puzzle over
  • qualm
  • qualmishness
  • quarrel
  • query
  • quest
  • questioning
  • questionnaire
  • quibble
  • quick
  • quiz
  • raise question
  • reason
  • rebellion
  • reluctance
  • reminisce
  • remonstrance
  • remonstration
  • request
  • research
  • reservation
  • resist
  • review
  • revolve
  • riddle
  • ruminate
  • scruple
  • search
  • second-guess
  • seek
  • show curiosity
  • skepticism
  • solicit
  • sound out
  • squabble
  • staple
  • static
  • stickler
  • stink
  • study
  • stumper
  • subject
  • subject matter
  • substance
  • sum
  • survey
  • suspect
  • suspicion
  • sweat
  • sweat it out of
  • talking point
  • theme
  • third degree
  • topic
  • toughie
  • toughy
  • turn
  • uncertainty
  • unease
  • uneasiness
  • unwillingness
  • weigh
  • wonder about
  • work over

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