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pictorial

pictorial

4 4.9
That is shown with pictures like photos and drawings
  • adjective
  • /pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl/
translation icon : pictórico
  • She created a pictorial guide that illustrates the key steps of the recipe.
  • pictorial representation
  • pictorial slide
  • pictorial diagrams

And it suggests that it's a pictorial message in three dimensions.

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Examples

  • On a coffee table lay art books and a pictorial history of the carabineros of Chile.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • And it suggests that it's a pictorial message in three dimensions.

  • Countries all over the world still pass on knowledge through pictorial forms.

  • So this now is a nice pictorial vision of what I've just described to you.

  • Spiritual life maps chart, or map, clients' spiritual life stories in a pictorial format.

    Academic text (2011)
  • For the regular students, signing served as a pictorial reinforcement of the meaning of a word.

    Academic text (1993)
  • PH structured his film Denmark as a series of pictorial fragments covering many different places in the country.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Children created one story without pictorial cues and one with pictorial cues available.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Other units in the P-BLiSS series use visual depictions that are more pictorial in nature.

    Academic text (1999)
  • OK, that's a pictorial representation of the SHA distribution.

Synonyms

graphic
vspictorial
151 3.7

Relating to pictures or charts that show information

is limited to literal pictures used to illustrate, not technical visuals
graphical
vspictorial
11 4.0

Images or drawings used to show information

focuses on using actual pictures rather than broader visual forms
pictural
vspictorial
8.2

Using pictures like drawings or photos to show something

is the same in meaning but differs as an alternative written form

Compounds

A picture that shows something, like a scene or object

Pictures like photos and drawings in a text that explain or decorate it

How Pictorial

photographic
54 4.1
pictorial
4 4.9
diagrammatic
1 6.8
textual
12 4.6

Surface Forms

pictorial positive

Morphology

pictorial = picture (semi-transparent) = picture + al

The meaning is easy to connect to 'picture', but the spelling and learned Latinate form make it less immediate than a fully regular derivation.

Etymology

Pictorial shares its root with picture, which means 'paint' or 'picture', so something pictorial is literally 'in pictures' or made up of images.