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- Dictionarysilhouette/ˌsɪlʊˈɛt/
noun
- 1. the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible in restricted light against a brighter background: "she paused to see its silhouette against the dimming sky"
verb
- 1. cast or show (someone or something) as a dark shape and outline against a brighter background: "the castle was silhouetted against the sky"
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a dark shape seen against a light background: [ U ] An unidentified witness was shown on camera in silhouette.
The meaning of SILHOUETTE is a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in. How to use silhouette in a sentence. Did you know?
a dark shape seen against a light surface: The silhouette of the bare tree on the hill was clear against the winter sky. Paco Navarro/Blend Images/GettyImages. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Patterns and shapes. amorphous. arabesque. argyle. asymmetrically. asymmetry. fishhook. flecked. formlessly. fretted. saltire. scalloped. scissor
Silhouette definition: a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.. See examples of SILHOUETTE used in a sentence.
A silhouette ( English: / ˌsɪluˈɛt /, [1] French: [silwɛt]) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.
A silhouette is the solid dark shape that you see when someone or something has a bright light or pale background behind them. The dark silhouette of the castle ruins stood out boldly against the fading light. [ + of] Synonyms: outline, form, shape, profile More Synonyms of silhouette. 2. countable noun.
noun. /ˌsɪluˈet/ [countable, uncountable] the dark outline or shape of a person or an object that you see against a light background. the silhouette of chimneys and towers. The trees were black silhouettes against the pale sky. in silhouette The mountains stood out in silhouette. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Want to learn more?
A silhouette is dark shadow, like a silhouette of a person standing under a street lamp, or a drawing that shows only the shape of an object.
the shape of something when the light is behind it so that you cannot see any details: He saw a woman in silhouette. silhouetted. adjective. the roofs silhouetted against the night sky. (Definition of silhouette from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
noun. /ˌsɪluˈɛt/. [countable, uncountable] the dark outline or shape of a person or an object that you see against a light background the silhouette of chimneys and towers The mountains stood out in silhouette. The trees were black silhouettes against the pale sky.
