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pictorial

[pik-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-ee-uhl] / pɪkˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr i əl /
ADJECTIVE
graphic
Synonyms
STRONGEST
descriptive illustrated photographic visual vivid
WEAK
blocked-out delineated depicted diagrammatic drawn engraved etched iconographic illustrational illustrative lifelike marked-out outlined painted pictographic pictoric pictured picturesque portrayed realistic representational seen sketched traced

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We leave the show realizing that Viollet-le-Duc was one of the world’s great pictorial thinkers, whose graphic curiosity recognized no boundaries between geology, anatomy and architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

The nearly 70-year retrospective of portrait drawings in pencil and paint by Los Angeles artist Don Bachardy revealed the works to be like performances: Both artist and sitter participated in putting on a pictorial show.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Each is staffed by one employee who follows pictorial instructions on several overhead screens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

In one of the earliest examples of his "pictorial" photography, Fading Away, Robinson combined five separate negatives to produce a scene showing a dying girl surrounded by her family.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

More purely pictorial than Zapotec or Maya script, the texts were arranged almost randomly on the page; red lines directed the reader s eye from image to image.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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