word picture

American  

noun

1. a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid.

   She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.

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word picture British  

noun

1. a verbal description, esp a vivid one

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Etymology

Origin of word picture

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

I vividly remember Noseda using “imagined dialogue” to paint a word picture of the mood he wanted conveyed by our singing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2021

It can kind of turn into a word picture or phrase where you’re just leading the team.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2021

It always helps when you can paint a word picture for voters, as Biden does with his new ad.

From Fox News • Sep. 28, 2020

Sebald is describing a collective death, a falling away; the people in this word picture, like the felled trees he describes in “The Rings of Saturn,” are as if caught in a kind of swoon.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

You remember Tennyson's picture, do you not, a word picture such as only a poet could paint: "A daughter of the gods, Divinely tall, and most divinely fair."

From Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 by Various