Pictographic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pictograph \Pic"to*graph\, n. [See {Picture}, and {-graph}.]
     A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.
     -- {Pic`to*graph"ic}, a.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pictographic
       adj : consisting of or characterized by the use of pictographs; "a
             pictographic script"; "pictographic stage in the
             development of writing"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "pictographic":
     abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, apish, capital, delineatory,
     depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative, graphemic, graphic,
     ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating,
     lettered, lexigraphic, limning, literal, logogrammatic,
     logographic, lower-case, majuscule, mimetic, mimish, minuscular,
     minuscule, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictorial, portraying,
     representational, representative, representing, simulative,
     symbolizing, transliterated, typifying, uncial, upper-case,
     vivid