image

image

noun

Definition of IMAGE

1

something or someone that strongly resembles another <the girl is growing up to be the perfect image of her mother>

Synonyms alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, fetch, likeness, look-alike, match, mirror image, picture, replica, ringer, spit, spitting image, twin

Related Words Chinese copy; effigy, portrait, portrayal; companion, fellow, mate; equal, equivalent; analogue (or analog), parallel

Near Antonyms antithesis, converse, opposite, reverse

2

a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing <a cave with prehistoric images of wild animals>

Synonyms icon (also ikon), illustration, image, likeness

Related Words delineation, depiction, representation, resemblance, view; portrait; daub, drawing, finger painting; etching, silhouette, sketch, watercolor; caricature, cartoon, doodle; collage, montage, photograph; hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, ideogram, ideograph; pictograph; diagram

3

something imagined or pictured in the mind <a sentimental visit to her childhood home to see if it still matched her mental image of the place>

Synonyms abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, image, impression, intellection, mind's eye, notion, picture, thought

Related Words apprehension, premonition, presentiment; preconception, prejudice, prepossession; chimera, delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm); caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, kink, vagary, whim; cognition, observation, perception, reflection; assumption, belief, conclusion, conviction; conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise, theory; brainchild, brainstorm, brain wave, inspiration

Near Antonyms actuality, fact, reality

4

a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) <a general who became for many the very image of the stoic warrior>

Synonyms abstract, avatar, embodier, epitome, externalization, genius, icon (also ikon), image, incarnation, incorporation, instantiation, manifestation, objectification, personification, personifier

Related Words actualization, concretization, exemplification, personalization, realization, substantiation; essence, quintessence, soul; archetype, exemplar, model, paradigm, pattern; reincarnation