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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pictorial \Pic*to"ri*al\, adjective [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See {Paint}.] Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. ''Pictorial rhetoric.'' --Ruskin. -- {Pic*to"ri*al*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pictorial
adjective
1: pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: {pictural}]
2: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: {graphic}, {lifelike}, {vivid}]
noun: a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "pictorial": annual, apish, bimonthly, biweekly, clear, daily, daybook, delineatory, depictive, diary, echoic, embodying, ephemeris, explicit, expressive, figurative, fortnightly, freehand, gazette, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, journal, limning, lucid, magazine, mimetic, mimish, monochrome, monthly, newsmagazine, onomatopoeic, organ, painty, pastose, periodical, personifying, photographic, pictographic, picturable, pictural, picturesque, plain, polychrome, portraying, quarterly, representational, representative, representing, review, scenographic, scumbled, serial, simulative, slick magazine, striking, symbolizing, telling, trade magazine, typifying, vivid, weekly, yearbook
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