Definitions for pictorial
pɪkˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr i əlpic·to·ri·al

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. pictorialadjective

   a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures

2. pictorial, picturaladjective

   pertaining to or consisting of pictures

   "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records"

3. graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vividadjective

   evoking lifelike images within the mind

   "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pictorialnoun

   a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof

2. pictorialnoun

   an article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs

3. pictorialnoun

   a stamp featuring a vignette of local scenery or culture.

4. pictorialadjective

   of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures

5. pictorialadjective

   described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid

6. pictorialadjective

   stylistically similar to a painting, especially following pictorial conventions – see pictorialism

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Pictorialadjective

   Produced by a painter. A word not adopted by other writers, but elegant and useful.

   Etymology: from pictor, Lat.

   Sea horses are but grotesco delineations, which fill up empty spaces in maps, as many pictorial inventions, not any physical shapes. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Pictorialadjective

   of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination

2. Etymology: [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See Paint.]

How to pronounce pictorial?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pictorial in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pictorial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pictorial in a Sentence

1. Paul Klee:

   The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

2. Mick Fleetwood:

   The new book is a pictorial book, which stays very much focused on the beginnings of Fleetwood Mac -- 1967 thought the next eight years -- and it's very much regarding what drove us as young musicians, which was blues, it's really a journey that chronicles all of those early years that are mostly unknown in America.

3. Natalie Herschdorfer:

   The Picasso of photography was the Picasso of photography, the Picasso of photography had a 70-year career covering the whole 20th Century. All the genres of modern photography are represented in The Picasso of photography work, from the pictorial style of the 1900s to the modernist period. It's very rare.

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