Meaning of PICTORIAL
| Pronunciation: | | pik'towreeul
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | graphic, illustrated, lifelike, pictural, realistic, vivid |
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| | See Also: | | periodical | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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