pictorial
/pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl
/adjective
Of or expressed in pictures; illustrated: feelings presented in a pictorial form...
- Twelve illustrations, taken from pictorial representations in the Tracts, help establish the flavour of the period.
- The solution was illustrated through a rich pictorial representation with icons representing computers, databases, and organizational functions.
- The publishers have also been extremely fastidious in their selection of the book's 325 illustrations, providing a pictorial record spanning over a century and a half.
Synonyms
illustrated, with illustrations, with pictures, with drawings, with sketches;
in pictures, in picture form, in photographs, photographic, graphic;
representational, depictive, illustrative, drawn
noun [usually in names]
A newspaper or periodical with pictures as a main feature: he reported on cricket for the Sunday Pictorial...
- From the start, the old pictorials used a remarkable diversity of images.
- In 1875 an American Christian missionary edited and published a pictorial, Children's Monthly, designed specially for children with a large number of exquisite and beautiful pictures.
Derivatives
pictorially
/ adverb ...- A spokeswoman for the centre said: ‘Throughout his life, Lowry travelled the length and breadth of the country in order to paint and draw what struck him as pictorially significant.’
- What with the costs of printing, cinema books don't always do their product justice pictorially, but this 450-page tome from the fine-art specialists is one of the most spectacular.
- The works are frequently small and pictorially complex and, in his pioneering exploration of image/text art, Blake often demands that we decipher and read as much as we look.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin pictorius (from Latin pictor 'painter', from the verb pingere 'to paint') + -al.