silhouette

Meaning of silhouette

noun
  1. An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
    I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.

verb

To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

Information about silhouette

Hyphenation of silhouette

sil-hou-ette

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • silhouette is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of silhouette

Words that rhyme with silhouette

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