IMAGE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for IMAGE?

Need another word that means the same as “image”? Find 79 synonyms and 30 related words for “image” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Image” are: icon, ikon, picture, effigy, simulacrum, persona, epitome, paradigm, prototype, figure, figure of speech, trope, range, range of a function, double, look-alike, likeness, resemblance, facsimile, photograph, snapshot, photo, reflection, mirror image, conception, impression, idea, concept, perception, notion, living image, replica, lookalike, clone, copy, reproduction, twin, duplicate, counterpart, semblance, guise, appearance, form, shape, aspect, character, mien, idol, fetish, false god, totem, talisman, public perception, public conception, public impression, profile, face, identity, front, facade, mask, role, part, simile, metaphor, metonymy, envision, fancy, project, see, visualise, visualize, envisage, imagine, conceive of, dream up, see in one's mind's eye

Image as a Noun

Definitions of "Image" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “image” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An exact copy of a computer's hard disk, made for backing up data or setting up new machines.
• A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.
• Semblance or likeness.
• A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
• A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture.
• The set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined.
• Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
• An optical appearance or counterpart produced by light from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens.
• Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor.
• The general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public.
• A mental representation or idea.
• A person or thing that closely resembles another.
• A personal facade that one presents to the world.
• An iconic mental representation.
• A standard or typical example.
• A simile or metaphor.
• (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined.
• The general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public.
• (in biblical use) an idol.
• A visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other device, or displayed on a computer or video screen.
• (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world.
• A point or set formed by mapping from another point or set.

Synonyms of "Image" as a noun (66 Words)

appearance	An impression given by someone or something. The rookie made a brief appearance in the first period.
aspect	A particular appearance or quality. A man of decidedly foreign aspect.
character	A person seen in terms of a particular aspect of character. A real character.
clone	A computer designed to simulate exactly the operation of another, typically more expensive, model. Vines representing all the 15 existing clones were planted.
concept	A plan or intention. The concept of justice.
conception	The event that occurred at the beginning of something. The time between a product s conception and its launch.
copy	Material for a newspaper or magazine article. It is an unfortunate truth of today s media that bad news makes good copy.
counterpart	One of two copies of a legal document. The minister held talks with his French counterpart.
double	A hit on the narrow ring enclosed by the two outer circles of a dartboard scoring double. The semi finals of the doubles.
duplicate	A pawnbroker’s ticket. Books may be disposed of if they are duplicates.
effigy	A roughly made model of a person that is made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest. A tomb effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
epitome	A summary of a written work; an abstract. She looked the epitome of elegance and good taste.
facade	A deceptive outward appearance. The house has a half timbered facade.
face	A vertical surface of a building or cliff. The unacceptable face of social drinking.
facsimile	An exact copy or reproduction. A facsimile of the manuscript.
false god	A man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people.
fetish	Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity. Made a fetish of cleanliness.
figure	A person seen indistinctly or from a distance. She is an important figure in modern music.
figure of speech	One of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration.
form	A printed document with blank spaces for information to be inserted. Essays in book form.
front	The part of a garment covering a person s front. He led the national liberation front.
guise	An external form, appearance, or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something. Sums paid under the guise of consultancy fees.
icon	A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface. This iron jawed icon of American manhood.
idea	(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies. The idea of the game is to capture all the pieces.
identity	An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates. Geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it.
idol	An ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept. A soccer idol.
ikon	A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.
impression	An impressionistic portrayal of a person. I got the impression that he was sorely disappointed.
likeness	The semblance, guise, or outward appearance of. Humans are described as being made in God s likeness.
living image	The financial means whereby one lives.
look-alike	Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor.
lookalike	A person or thing that closely resembles another, especially someone who looks very similar to a famous person. An Elvis Presley lookalike.
mask	A masked person. They moved in under a mask of friendship.
metaphor	A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. When we speak of gene maps and gene mapping we use a cartographic metaphor.
metonymy	The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the turf for horse racing.
mien	Dignified manner or conduct. He has a cautious academic mien.
mirror image	Polished surface that forms images by reflecting light.
notion	A conception of or belief about something. The theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories.
paradigm	The class of all items that can be substituted into the same position or slot in a grammatical sentence are in paradigmatic relation with one another. Society s paradigm of the ideal woman.
part	A melody or other constituent of harmony assigned to a particular voice or instrument in a musical work. She played a lot of leading parts.
perception	The neurophysiological processes, including memory, by which an organism becomes aware of and interprets external stimuli. The perception of pain.
persona	A personal facade that one presents to the world. The real world figure didn t quite match up to his muscle bound weapon clad online persona.
photo	A photograph.
photograph	A picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused on to light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally. A photograph of her father.
picture	A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format. How excessively like her brother Miss Morland is The very picture of him indeed.
profile	Biographical sketch. He posted the pictures on his Facebook profile.
prototype	A first or preliminary version of a device or vehicle from which other forms are developed. The construction of bandpass networks from low pass prototypes.
public conception	People in general considered as a whole.
public impression	People in general considered as a whole.
public perception	People in general considered as a whole.
range	The compass of a person’s voice or a musical instrument. Planets within radio range of Earth.
range of a function	A kitchen appliance used for cooking food.
reflection	The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it. The pulse is a reflection of the heart s condition.
replica	Copy that is not the original; something that has been copied. A replica of the Empire State Building.
reproduction	A copy of a work of art, especially a print or photograph of a painting. The cost of colour reproduction in publication is high.
resemblance	Similarity in appearance or external or superficial details. There was a close resemblance between herself and Anne.
role	The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group. What is your role on the team.
semblance	Resemblance similarity. He hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity.
shape	The state of good health especially in the phrases in condition or in shape or out of condition or out of shape. He could barely make out their shapes.
simile	The use of similes as a method of comparison. His audacious deployment of simile and metaphor.
simulacrum	A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture. A small scale simulacrum of a skyscraper.
snapshot	A record of the contents of a storage location or data file at a given time. Morris had to make a good save from a snapshot by a defender.
talisman	A trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease. A dolphin talisman would ensure a safe journey on land or at sea.
totem	A clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object. The fast food chains have become totems of Western economic development.
trope	A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression. My sense that philosophy has become barren is a recurrent trope of modern philosophy.
twin	A twin engined aircraft. The hotel has 54 rooms of which 4 are twins.

Usage Examples of "Image" as a noun

• Although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry.
• I had a sudden image of Sal bringing me breakfast in bed.
• He uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness.
• The image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers.
• The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone.
• He provided America with an image of the good father.
• He's the image of his father.
• Her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art.
• Voyager 2 sent back images of the planet Neptune.
• Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate.
• The company tried to project an altruistic image.
• A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them.
• A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.
• She's the very image of her mother.
• Made in the image of God.
• She strives to project an image of youth.

Image as a Verb

Definitions of "Image" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “image” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Form a mental picture or idea of.
• Make an exact copy of (a computer's hard disk.
• Make a representation of the external form of.
• Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
• Render visible, as by means of MRI.
• Make a visual representation of (something) by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam.

Synonyms of "Image" as a verb (13 Words)

conceive of	Have the idea for.
dream up	Experience while sleeping.
envisage	Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case. The Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers.
envision	Imagine; conceive of; see in one’s mind. I cannot envision him as President.
fancy	Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for. I fancy him to win the tournament.
figure	Calculate or work out (an amount or value) arithmetically. My accountant figured my tax wrong.
imagine	Suppose or assume. After Ned died everyone imagined that Mabel would move away.
picture	Show in or as in a picture. She pictured Benjamin waiting.
project	Make a projection of the earth sky etc on a plane surface. She liked to project herself more as a friend than a doctor.
see	Go to see a place as for entertainment. Berlin does not want to be seen to be taking sides in the French election.
see in one's mind's eye	Receive as a specified guest.
visualise	Form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract.
visualize	Make (something) visible to the eye. It is not easy to visualize the future.

Usage Examples of "Image" as a verb

• It is possible for us to image a society in which no one committed crime.
• Artworks which imaged women's bodies.
• The hard disk drive should be imaged using a specialized bitstream backup product.

Associations of "Image" (30 Words)

abstract	Consider a concept without thinking of a specific example consider abstractly or theoretically. To abstract science and religion from their historical context can lead to anachronism.
abstractly	In abstract terms.
archetypal	Relating to or denoting Jungian archetypes. Archetypal myths.
conceivable	Capable of being imagined. The body was photographed from every conceivable angle.
conceive	Create (an embryo) by fertilizing an egg. She cannot conceive.
conception	The act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon. A rise in premarital conceptions.
countenance	The appearance conveyed by a person’s face. His impenetrable eyes and inscrutable countenance give little away.
daguerreotype	A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.
eidetic	Relating to or denoting mental images having unusual vividness and detail, as if actually visible. An eidetic memory.
envisage	Form a mental picture of (something not yet existing or known. The Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers.
envision	Picture to oneself; imagine possible. She envisioned the admiring glances of guests seeing her home.
expression	Expression without words. His manner of expression showed how much he cared.
fancy	Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for. Pony carts went round the racecourse loaded with the fancy.
format	Especially in computing arrange or put into a format. As modifier in combination large format paperbacks.
hypothetical	A hypothetical proposition or statement. Consider the following just as a hypothetical.
icon	A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church. This iron jawed icon of American manhood.
ideational	Relating to the formation of ideas or concepts. Policy has been shaped by both material and ideational factors.
imagery	Visual symbolism. The impact of computer generated imagery on contemporary art.
imagine	Suppose or assume. I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel.
photograph	Record on photographic film. A photograph of her father.
photographer	A person who takes photographs, especially as a job. A freelance press photographer.
picture	Show in or as in a picture. How excessively like her brother Miss Morland is The very picture of him indeed.
pixel	(computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot. The greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution.
reflection	(mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed. He doesn t get much time for reflection.
smiley	Smiling; cheerful. He drew a smiley face.
theoretical	Concerned with or involving the theory of a subject or area of study rather than its practical application. The training is practical rather than theoretical.
tiff	A quarrel about petty points. Joanna had a tiff with her boyfriend.
trope	A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression. My sense that philosophy has become barren is a recurrent trope of modern philosophy.
visual	Visible. A visual image.
visualize	Imagine; conceive of; see in one’s mind. The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver.