pictorial

pictorial

adjective

Definition of PICTORIAL

1

consisting of or relating to pictures <that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa>

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

2

producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description <she writes a very pictorial kind of poetry, using words the way a painter applies strokes of color>

Synonyms delineated, pictorial, picturesque, visual, vivid

Related Words depicted, descriptive, expressive; concrete, explicit, specific; faithful, lifelike, natural, photographic, realistic; fresh, incisive, sharp

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