'Pictorial' definitions:
Definition of 'pictorial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: pictorial, pictural]
adjective
Evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]
noun
A periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures
Definition of 'Pictorial'
From: GCIDE
- Pictorial \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. [1913 Webster] Pictoric
Synonyms of 'pictorial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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