pictorial

Using pictures to show or explain something.

• The book offers a pictorial guide to birds.
• We kept a pictorial record of the trip.
• The instructions are mainly pictorial.

Similar words: illustrated, visual

Common phrases: pictorial guide, pictorial record, pictorial history

Describing something so clearly that you can imagine seeing it.

• Her pictorial description brought the garden to life.
• His prose has a strikingly pictorial quality.
• The poem uses pictorial language to describe winter.

Similar words: vivid, graphic

Common phrases: pictorial description, pictorial language

Looking like a painting, especially in photographs made with soft shapes and artistic effects.

• She prefers a pictorial style of photography.
• Soft focus gives the photograph a pictorial quality.
• His pictorial photographs resemble delicate paintings.

Similar words: painterly

Common phrases: pictorial photography, pictorial style

An article or collection consisting mainly of photographs.

• The magazine published a pictorial of the island.
• Her latest pictorial features bright summer clothes.
• Two pictorials show how the city has changed.

Similar words: photo feature, photo spread

Common phrases: fashion pictorial, magazine pictorial, pictorial of something

A newspaper or magazine, or part of one, containing many pictures.

• He bought a weekly pictorial at the station.
• The old pictorials show fashions from the period.
• Her photograph appeared on the cover of a pictorial.

Similar words: illustrated magazine

Common phrases: weekly pictorial, Sunday pictorial

A postage stamp showing a local landscape or something from local culture.

• This pictorial shows a mountain lake.
• The album contains several early pictorials.
• Collectors admired the detailed design of the new pictorial.

Similar words: pictorial stamp

Common phrases: collect a pictorial, early pictorial