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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. pertaining to or consisting of pictures;
- Example: "pictorial perspective"
- Example: "pictorial records"
[syn: pictorial, pictural]

2. evoking lifelike images within the mind;
- Example: "pictorial poetry and prose"
- Example: "graphic accounts of battle"
- Example: "a lifelike portrait"
- Example: "a vivid description"
[syn: graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pictorial \Pic*to"ri*al\, a. [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.
   [1913 Webster] Pictoric


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pictorial
    adj 1: pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial
           perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: pictorial,
           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,
       pictorial, vivid]
    n 1: a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many
         pictures