Paraphrase Synonyms and Antonyms

părə-frāz
A restating of something in other, especially simpler, words
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rendering
  2. restatement
  3. translation
  4. version
  5. paraphrasis
Translation, interpretation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. restatement
  2. translation
  3. digest
  4. amplification
  5. paraphrasis
  6. explanation
  7. recapitulation
  8. synopsis
Antonyms:
  1. quotation
To express the meaning of in other, especially simpler, words
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rephrase
  2. reword
  3. restate
  4. quote
  5. recapitulate
  6. summarize
  7. translate
  8. render
  9. interpret
  10. restatement
  11. cite
  12. revise
  13. synopsis
Antonyms:
  1. quote

Words Related to Paraphrase

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. interpretation
  2. words
  3. summary
  4. contemporization
  5. misquote
  6. celan

Paraphrase Sentence Examples

  • In 1701 he published A Paraphrase upon the Gospel of St Matthew, which was followed, in 1702, by the Paraphrases upon the Gospels of St Mark and St Luke, and soon afterwards by a third volume upon St John.

  • The Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (formerly attributed to Geoffrey Vinsauf, but in reality the work of Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London) is little more than a free paraphrase of Ambrose.

  • He had been committed to the king's bench prison on the ridiculous charge of libelling the Church in his Paraphrase on the New Testament, and was tried before Jeffreys on this accusation.

  • To paraphrase Shakespeare, "The path to true love never did run straight".

  • He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on hackneyed sophistical themes; of a Quadrivium (Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the middle ages; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Dionysius Areopagita; poems, including an autobiography; and a description of the Augusteum, the column erected by Justinian in the church of St Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.

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