pictorial Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures
adjective pertaining to or consisting of pictures
pictural.
- pictorial perspective
- pictorial records
adjective satellite evoking lifelike images within the mind
graphic; lifelike; vivid.
- pictorial poetry and prose
- graphic accounts of battle
- a lifelike portrait
- a vivid description

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, adv.