PORTRAYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does portrayed mean? 

• PORTRAYED (adjective)
  The adjective PORTRAYED has 1 sense:

1. represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

  Familiarity information: PORTRAYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTRAYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

Synonyms:

depicted; pictured; portrayed

Similar:

delineate; delineated; represented (represented accurately or precisely)

 Context examples 

The HISPANIOLA, in that unbroken mirror, was exactly portrayed from the truck to the waterline, the Jolly Roger hanging from her peak.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Although the force of the wind on Mars is not as strong as portrayed in an early scene in the movie The Martian, dust lofted during storms could affect electronics and health, as well as the availability of solar energy.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

And in this was portrayed the victory of the spirit over the flesh, the indomitability and moral grandeur of the soul that knows no restriction and rises above time and space and matter with a surety and invincibleness born of nothing else than eternity and immortality.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The windows, to which she looked with peculiar dependence, from having heard the general talk of his preserving them in their Gothic form with reverential care, were yet less what her fancy had portrayed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman's shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)