depicted

[dih-pik-tid]

adjective

1. represented by or as if by painting or other visual image; portrayed.

   The viewer of this striking painting is lured into the possible narrative of the depicted figure by her beauty, strength, and grace.

2. represented or characterized in words.

   Subtle cues in the text indicate the tone or stance the author is taking towards the depicted events.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of depict.

Other Word Forms

• undepicted adjective
• well-depicted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of depicted¹

depict + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Many sported stickers on their shirts with the words “They’re returning,” in reference to the hostages, replacing stickers that had before depicted the number of days they had spent in captivity.

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“A House of Dynamite” is set in the present, but the functional government depicted within it feels like a thing of the distant past.

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Park’s graphic elegance may be at odds with the awkward, idle indignities depicted onscreen, but the discrepancy between the two generates an edge-of-your-seat tension.

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The producers behind the hit Paddington films and the estate of his creator, Michael Bond, are suing the company behind Spitting Image after it depicted the beloved bear as a foul-mouthed podcast host.

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But nothing in “The Smashing Machine” gels or compels in the ways that the sport depicted onscreen so often does.

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Related Words

• descriptive 
• illustrated 
• photographic 
• visual 
• vivid