pictorial

¹pic·to·ri·al

adjective \pik-ˈtȯr-ē-əl\

Definition of PICTORIAL

1

: of or relating to a painter, a painting, or the painting or drawing of pictures <pictorial perspective>

2

a : of, relating to, or consisting of pictures <pictorial records>

b : illustrated by pictures <pictorial weekly>

c : consisting of or displaying the characteristics of pictographs

d : suggesting or conveying visual images <pictorial poetry>

— pic·to·ri·al·ly \-ē-ə-lē\ adverb

— pic·to·ri·al·ness noun

Examples of PICTORIAL

1. a pictorial record of the trip
2. <that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa>

Origin of PICTORIAL

Late Latin pictorius, from Latin pictor painter — more at picturesque

First Known Use: 1646

Related to PICTORIAL

Synonyms

graphic (also graphical), imaginal, visual

Related Words

photographic, video; drawn, painted, represented; illustrational, illustrative; hieroglyphic (also hieroglyphical), iconographic (or iconographical), ideogramic (or ideogrammic), ideogrammatic, ideographic, pictographic

Near Antonyms

indeterminate, nebulous, obscure, sketchy, unclear, vague; bleary, blurry, dark, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, muddy, murky, shadowlike, shadowy; ambiguous, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, inscrutable, mysterious

Rhymes with PICTORIAL

arboreal, armorial, auctorial, authorial, cantorial, censorial, corporeal, cursorial, factorial, fossorial, marmoreal, memorial, praetorial, proctorial, raptorial, rectorial, sartorial, seignorial, sensorial, sponsorial, tonsorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial

²pictorial

noun

Definition of PICTORIAL

: a periodical having much pictorial matter

First Known Use of PICTORIAL

1844