illustrating

The word “illustrating” has 4 syllables: il-lus-tra-ting

It's pronounced as /ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for illustrating?

In the thesaurus, “illustrating” has 46 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for illustrating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for illustrating

  • adducing
  • analyzing
  • annotating
  • breaking down
  • citing
  • clarifying
  • commentating
  • construing
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • defining
  • demonstrating
  • demystifying
  • detailing
  • disentangling
  • edifying
  • elucidating
  • enlightening
  • enumerating
  • exemplifying
  • explaining
  • explicating
  • expounding
  • getting across
  • glossing
  • illuminating
  • imaging
  • instancing
  • interpreting
  • listing
  • mentioning
  • naming
  • pictorializing
  • picturing
  • quoting
  • resolving
  • simplifying
  • solving
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • undoing
  • unraveling
  • unriddling
  • unscrambling
  • untangling
  • visualizing

Antonyms for illustrating

Meanings of illustrating

  • verb
    1. To shed light upon.
    2. To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
    3. To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
    4. To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.

Example Sentences

  • The professor used a diagram, illustrating the complex process of photosynthesis.
  • She created a series of paintings, illustrating scenes from her favorite novel.
  • The documentary featured interviews with experts, illustrating the effects of climate change on wildlife habitats.
  • The children's book is filled with colorful illustrations, illustrating various adventures of the main characters.
  • The presentation concluded with a video clip, illustrating the company's innovative approach to sustainable development.

On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to illustrating, such as: adducing, analyzing, annotating, beclouding, befogging, blurring, breaking down.

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

Related Words

illuminating

  • accenting
  • accentuating
  • advertising
  • analyzing
  • annotating
  • availing
  • bathing
  • beaconing
  • beaming
  • bearing down on
  • bedazzling
  • beneficial
  • bettering
  • blazing
  • blinding
  • boosting
  • breaking down
  • brightening
  • burning
  • chatty
  • clarifying
  • commentating
  • communicatory
  • comprehensive
  • constructive
  • construing
  • copious
  • dazing
  • dazzling
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • defining
  • demonstrating
  • demystifying
  • detailed
  • disentangling
  • edifying
  • educating
  • educational
  • educative
  • elevating
  • elucidating
  • elucidative
  • emblazing
  • emphasizing
  • enhaloing
  • enlightening
  • ennobling
  • enriching
  • ensouling
  • exalting
  • explaining
  • explanatory
  • explicating
  • expounding
  • featuring
  • firing
  • flaming
  • floodlighting
  • fluorescent
  • focusing
  • focussing
  • foregrounding
  • full
  • getting across
  • glaring
  • gleaming
  • glistening
  • glittering
  • glorifying
  • glossing
  • glowing
  • gossipy
  • haloing
  • helpful
  • highlighting
  • identifying
  • igniting
  • illuminated
  • illuming
  • illumining
  • illustrating
  • imaging
  • improving
  • incandescent
  • incinerating
  • informational
  • informative
  • informatory
  • inspiring
  • instructional
  • instructive
  • interpreting
  • irradiating
  • kindling
  • lifting
  • lightening
  • lighting
  • luminescent
  • making much of
  • newsy
  • nurturing
  • overplaying
  • pictorializing
  • picturing
  • pinpointing
  • playing up
  • plugging
  • practical
  • pressing
  • profitable
  • promoting
  • publicizing
  • punctuating
  • radiating
  • regenerating
  • renewing
  • resolving
  • serviceable
  • shining
  • simplifying
  • solving
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • spotlighting
  • stressing
  • transfiguring
  • transforming
  • undoing
  • unraveling
  • unriddling
  • unscrambling
  • untangling
  • uplifting
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • visualizing
  • worthwhile

imaging

objectifying

  • actualizing
  • bodying
  • concretizing
  • embodying
  • epitomizing
  • exemplifying
  • expressing
  • externalizing
  • fetishizing
  • illustrating
  • imaging
  • incarnating
  • incorporating
  • instantiating
  • manifesting
  • materializing
  • personalizing
  • personifying
  • realizing
  • substantiating
  • symbolizing
  • typifying

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

quoting

  • adducing
  • advertising
  • announcing
  • aping
  • bearing out
  • bringing up
  • broaching
  • broadcasting
  • citing
  • clarifying
  • copycatting
  • copying
  • corroborating
  • declaring
  • denominating
  • designating
  • dittoing
  • documenting
  • dropping
  • echoing
  • elucidating
  • emulating
  • excerpting
  • exemplifying
  • explaining
  • explicating
  • illustrating
  • imitating
  • implying
  • indicating
  • inferring
  • infiltrating
  • insinuating
  • instancing
  • intending
  • interjecting
  • interpolating
  • interposing
  • intimating
  • introducing
  • mentioning
  • mimicking
  • miming
  • mouthing
  • naming
  • noticing
  • noting
  • parroting
  • proclaiming
  • pronouncing
  • publicizing
  • publishing
  • reciting
  • reechoing
  • referencing
  • repeating
  • representing
  • signaling
  • signalling
  • signifying
  • sounding
  • sourcing
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • stating
  • substantiating
  • suggesting
  • validating
  • worming

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