Pictorial

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pictorial
       adj 1: pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial
              perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: {pictural}]
       2: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry
          and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike
          portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: {graphic}, {lifelike},
           {vivid}]
       n : a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many
           pictures

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

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "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