illustrate
Clarify with examples
To illustrate is to clarify or explain through examples, pictures, or demonstrations.
A teacher illustrates a concept with diagrams; a story illustrates a moral principle.
Books are illustrated when they contain pictures: a beautifully illustrated children's book.
The word suggests making something visible or concrete that might otherwise remain abstract: Let me illustrate what I mean.
Create with pencil
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- renderCause to become
- portrayRepresent through performance
- paintColored coating substance
delineate · picture · image · limn · engrave · etch · ink · illuminate
Make something understood
- elucidateTo make understood
- demonstrateShow or prove something
- exemplifyRepresent through instance
- showMake something apparent
expound · interpret · illuminate · explicate · articulate · demystify · annotate · exposition
draw
Create with pencil
paint · delineate · picture · image · limn · engrave · etch · ink · illuminate · emblazon
explain
Make something understood
- elucidateTo make understood
- demonstrateShow or prove something
- exemplifyRepresent through instance
show · expound · interpret · illuminate · explicate · articulate · demystify · annotate · exposition · gloss
decorate
Add visual enhancements
- adornAdd beauty to
- ornamentThing that beautifies
- illuminateSupply with radiance
bedeck · emblazon · flourish · gild · beautify · enhance · garnish · border · frame · vignette
- expressionexpress, convey, communicate, verbal, nonverbal
- art verbsdraw, paint, sketch, sculpt, carve
- clarifyexplain, clarify, elucidate, elaborate, spell out
- design verbscreate, design, draw, sketch, compose
- educateteach, instruct, educate, tutor, school
- presentationpresent, deliver, introduce, demonstrate, display
- book illustratorsArtists who visualize text
- illustrated guidesInstructional texts with images
- book illustrationImage in published volume
- Sports IllustratedAmerican athletics periodical
- to illustrateExplain through images
- digital illustrationArtwork made on computers
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