VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / illustrate

Thesaurus: illustrate

To make clear, bright, or luminous.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. v. t. To make clear, bright, or luminous.
  2. v. t. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
  3. v. t. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
  4. v. t. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
  5. v. t. To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
  6. a. Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
  7. v. clarify by giving an example of
  8. v. depict with an illustration
  9. v. supply with illustrations
  10. v:100 v. depict with an illustration v. supply with illustrations