pictorial

adjective

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pic·to·ri·al | \ pik-ˈtȯr-ē-əl

Definition of pictorial

(Entry 1 of 2)

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

2a : 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

pictorial

noun

Definition of pictorial (Entry 2 of 2)

: a periodical having much pictorial matter

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Synonyms: Adjective

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Adjective a pictorial record of the trip that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The cardboard pictorial cards are still sought today for their art and messaging. — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, "Advertising art showcased great talents: Yenke Peddler antiques," 22 Apr. 2021 The show teaches in vivid pictorial form the now far-too-long-running lesson of meeting hatred and violence with nonviolence and grace. — BostonGlobe.com, "How children’s books carry on the struggle for civil rights," 9 Apr. 2021 My schoolbooks emphasized that Trinidad and Tobago was a rainbow utopia, evident by the shoehorning of as many creeds and races as could possibly fit into small, grayscale pictorial representations. — Amanda Choo Quan, Harper's BAZAAR, "I Grew Up in a Majority-Minority Country. We Still Have a Problem with Anti-Blackness," 1 Apr. 2021 The black-and-white photographs have dynamic compositions (lots of diagonal vectors and pictorial torque) and are reminiscent of the work of Mary Ellen Mark. — Washington Post, "Trump’s America, through the lens of two Italian photographers," 24 Oct. 2020 Other exhibits include a pictorial history of the island and mementos honoring the Coast Guard's role in protecting the coast. — Stratton Lawrence, Travel + Leisure, "Hilton Head Island Travel Guide," 26 Feb. 2021 The relatives on his father’s side had owned cameras for more than a century, leaving a pictorial record of New England life going back to the 1890s. — John Leland, New York Times, "A Teenager Was Bullied. His Ancestors Saved Him.," 26 Feb. 2021 Space becomes porous behind, around, and in front of the subject: a revolving-door effect, spinning pictorial depth out into the real world. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "When a Museum Feels Like Home," 8 Feb. 2021 As Carolina Miranda pointed out in the L.A. Times, the Capitol is already a kind of pictorial representation of American history, albeit a pretty distorted one. — The Editors, Curbed, "How Do We Preserve Artifacts From the Capitol Attacks?," 11 Jan. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Probert was not particularly fond of cats, but this pictorial appealed to him as an advertising logo. — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, "From Chessie the cat to Old Ironsides: Yenke Peddler antiques," 9 Jan. 2020 The Wall preened for magazine pictorials and played the heavy in spy novels. — Time, "The Berlin Wall Is a Reminder That Barriers Last Only As Long as the Political Will to Defend Them," 8 Nov. 2019 As EW’s Marc Snetiker analyzed, the four pictorials probably represent either the four classical elements (water, earth, fire, air) or the four Gregorian seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter). — Christian Holub, EW.com, "Frozen 2 unveils new poster ahead of upcoming trailer," 10 June 2019 Playboy temporarily stopped featuring nude pictorials in 2015. — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, "Playboy's Playmate of the Year Nina Daniele says she's a feminist: 'We’re not forced to pose nude'," 2 May 2018

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