pictorial
[pik-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-ee-uhl]
adjective
pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
illustrated by or containing pictures: a pictorial history.
of or relating to the art of painting and drawing pictures, the pictures themselves, or their makers: the pictorial masterpieces of the Renaissance.
having or suggesting the visual appeal or imagery of a picture: a pictorial metaphor.
noun
a periodical in which pictures constitute an important feature.
a magazine feature that is primarily photographic.
Origin of pictorial
Synonyms for pictorial
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Related Words for pictorial
illustrated, visual, photographic, vivid, descriptive, drawn, illustrative, lifelike, outlined, painted, pictographic, picturesque, realistic, traced, delineated, depicted, diagrammatic, etched, iconographic, illustrationalExamples from the Web for pictorial
Contemporary Examples of pictorial
They are never portraits of specific individuals who might interest us, even visually, apart from their pictorial roles.
He declared them to be “a pictorial representation of England as a free society and the liberator of other peoples.”
Historical Examples of pictorial
They tend to partake of the methods of pictorial caricature.
The American MindBliss Perry
The least change in our point of view, gives the whole world a pictorial air.
NatureRalph Waldo Emerson
Mrs. Denyse pointed majestically to the pictorial blur in the paper.
Little Miss GrouchSamuel Hopkins Adams
Nor is there any pictorial representation of the interior of the playhouse.
Shakespearean PlayhousesJoseph Quincy Adams
The first is taken from the Sunday Pictorial, of all papers.
The World in ChainsJohn Mavrogordato
pictorial
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Word Origin for pictorial
C17: from Late Latin pictōrius, from Latin pictor painter, from pingere to paint
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