About The Word Pictorial

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Pictorial

Pictorial Meaning & Definition
Pictorial Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pictorial?

[n] a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures
[adj] illustrated with pictures; "a pictorial history"
[adj] evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"
[adj] pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pictorial: graphic | illustrated | lifelike | pictural | realistic | vivid

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pictorial: annual | apish | bimonthly | biweekly | clear | daily | daybook | delineatory | depictive | diary | echoic | embodying | ephemeris | explicit | expressive | figurative | fortnightly | freehand | gazette | graphic | ideographic | illustrational | illustrative | imitative | incarnating | journal | limning | lucid | magazine | mimetic | mimish | monochrome | monthly | newsmagazine | onomatopoeic | organ | painty | pastose | periodical | personifying | photographic | pictographic | picturable | pictural | picturesque | plain | polychrome | portraying | quarterly | representational | representative | representing | review | scenographic | scumbled | serial | simulative | slick magazine | striking | symbolizing | telling | trade magazine | typifying | vivid | weekly | yearbook

See Also | periodical

Pictorial In Webster's Dictionary

\Pic*to"ri*al\, a. [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See {Paint}.] Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. ``Pictorial rhetoric.'' --Ruskin. -- {Pic*to"ri*al*ly}, adv.

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