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Synonyms for blueprint

  • noun

Most common

design scheme cyanotype ground plan

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Design

design, plan, project, pattern, plot, outline, devise

2. Scheme — A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form)

scheme, schematic informal, cyanotype, diagram

Other

ground plan, action plan informal, layout informal, road map informal

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

  2. n. 2

    A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

Forms

Plural
blueprints → designs, plans, projects, patterns…

Example sentences

  • design Honeycomb design may improve thin-film solar cells.
  • scheme The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
blueprintrising
designsteady
schemefalling
cyanotyperising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
plan1, plot1
6 letters
design2, scheme1, layout2, devise2
7 letters
project2, pattern2, outline2, diagram3
9 letters
schematic3, cyanotype

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (design2 = 2 syllables).