pictorially

1 6.5

Using pictures or diagrams to explain something

adverb
/pɪkˈtɔːriəli/

: pictóricamente

The word clouds below depict this data pictorially (Figure 1-3).

Although for pictorially, I think everybody like this way of sketching out what your automaton would accept.

Examples

Another way of presenting complex risk information to patients is to do it pictorially.

Academic text (2011)
Both of these positions are presented pictorially in Figure 3.

Academic text (1994)
OK, so there's a good way to see pictorially what the P value is.
Pictorially, the print driver, queue, queue driver, and dataflow relationships can be represented as shown in Figure 1.

Academic text (1997)
In fact, pictorially, they fully conform to the graphic conventions of portraits of Euro-American nuns.

Academic text (2011)
By displaying the variation of the attenuation coefficient pictorially in shades of gray, one creates an image that shows the various anatomical features of the tissue slice.

Academic text (1995)
Such books are helpful because they review the parts of the twig pictorially in their descriptions: lenticels, bud scales, leaf scars, vascular bundles, thorns, and much more.

Academic text (2010)
The teacher asked the students to illustrate their ideas pictorially using drawings.
In the museum, the history of the town was displayed pictorially through a series of vibrant murals.
She explained the process pictorially, using diagrams to help the audience understand.

Synonyms

visually

vspictorially

79 3.5

In a way that can be seen

is specific to picture-based illustration rather than general vision

graphically

vspictorially

9 4.4

In a way that shows information with clear pictures or charts

uses images in an illustrative way rather than formal graphics

representationally

vspictorially

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To show things as they look, often in art

uses pictures specifically to illustrate or represent things visually

pictographically

vspictorially

1 7.7

Using simple pictures to show meaning instead of words

focuses on using images in a visual or illustrative manner

How Pictorial

graphically

5 5.1

pictorially

1 6.5

visually

79 3.5

Surface Forms

pictorially positive

Morphology

pictorially = pictorial (transparent) = pictorial + ly

The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'pictorial' with '-ly', and the meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Pictorially comes from the root pict meaning 'paint' and is the same root as the common word picture. The ending -ally makes it 'in that way', so pictorially means 'in a picture-like or visual way'.