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PICTORIAL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does pictorial mean?

• PICTORIAL (noun)
The noun PICTORIAL has 1 sense:

1. a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures

Familiarity information: PICTORIAL used as a noun is very rare.

• PICTORIAL (adjective)
The adjective PICTORIAL has 2 senses:

1. pertaining to or consisting of pictures
2. evoking lifelike images within the mind

Familiarity information: PICTORIAL used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PICTORIAL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pictorial" is a kind of...):

periodical (a publication that appears at fixed intervals)

• PICTORIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pertaining to or consisting of pictures

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

pictorial; pictural

Context examples:

pictorial perspective / pictorial records

Pertainym:

picture (illustrations used to decorate or explain a text)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Evoking lifelike images within the mind

Synonyms:

lifelike; vivid; pictorial; graphic

Context examples:

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

Similar:

realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)

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