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🖼️ Shown visually 🤔 Imagined
pictured

pictured

1 2.6
A thing shown in a photo or drawing
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɪkʧərd/
: representado
  • One of my closest friends, Stanley Dukes, pictured above, is dead.

One of my closest friends, Stanley Dukes, pictured above, is dead.

Examples

  • And like that she was back with Ben Affleck pictured on the yacht like that.

  • The electric field in here can also be pictured in terms of photons.

  • So absolute spirit is being pictured for gestout, right?

  • Maybe it will be as Carl Sagan pictured in in Contact.

  • Now that I've gotten this whole painting pictured Nice.

  • The landscape was beautifully pictured in the award-winning photograph.

  • In the museum, each artwork was pictured on the wall with a detailed description.

  • The artist's vision was pictured vividly in her latest painting.

Synonyms

depicted
vspictured
1 3.2

Shown in a picture or painting

is shown in photos diagrams or other nonart visual forms
represented
vspictured
1 3.2

Shown or described correctly and clearly

focuses on actual visual showing like photos and diagrams rather than description
portrayed
vspictured
1 4.1

Shown in a picture or drawing

is shown in photos diagrams or other visual forms not just line art

How Clear

to photograph
245 2.1
pictured
1 2.6
to illustrate
250 3.5
to represent
462 3.4
to suggest
∞ 2.1

Surface Forms

pictured positive

Morphology

pictured = picture (transparent) = picture + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'picture' meaning 'depict', so the sense 'depicted' follows directly.

Etymology

Pictured comes from picture, which originally meant a painting and the act paint or 'to paint'. So when something is pictured, it is shown as a picture, for example in a photo or drawing.