silhouette
[noun]
Synonyms:
- outline, form, profile, shape
[verb]
Synonyms:
- outline, etch, stand out

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Related Words: shade, shadow

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

sil‧hou‧ette /ˌsɪluˈet/ noun
[Date: 1700-1800; Language: French; Origin: from Étienne de Silhouette (1709-67), French politician famous for not liking to spend money, and therefore appropriately giving his name to a cheap simple picture]

1. [uncountable and countable] a dark image, shadow, or shape that you see against a light background
silhouette of
a dark silhouette of domes and minarets
silhouette against
Soon the bombers would return, black silhouettes against a pale sky.
in silhouette
The old windmill stood out in silhouette.

2.
[uncountable and countable] a drawing of something or someone, often from the side, showing a black shape against a light background:
silhouette pictures of snowmen and reindeer
in silhouette
a picture of Mozart in silhouette

3. [countable] the particular shape certain clothes give you:
Fitted clothes often give the neatest silhouettes.
—silhouetted adjective:
tall chimney stacks silhouetted against the orange flames

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

silhouette
noun
ADJ. black, dark, stark
VERB + SILHOUETTE see
PREP. in ~ He drew the city in silhouette.
~ against I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲