Thesaurus
pictorial
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of PICTORIAL
1
consisting of or relating to pictures <that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa>
Related Words photographic, video; drawn, painted, represented; illustrational, illustrative; hieroglyphic (also hieroglyphical), iconographic (or iconographical), ideogramic (or ideogrammic), ideogrammatic, ideographic, pictographic
2
producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description <she writes a very pictorial kind of poetry, using words the way a painter applies strokes of color>
Related Words depicted, descriptive, expressive; concrete, explicit, specific; faithful, lifelike, natural, photographic, realistic; fresh, incisive, sharp
Near Antonyms indeterminate, nebulous, obscure, sketchy, unclear, vague; bleary, blurry, dark, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, muddy, murky, shadowlike, shadowy; ambiguous, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, inscrutable, mysterious
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