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Pictorial vs Descriptive - What's the difference?

pictorial | descriptive |

As adjectives the difference between pictorial and descriptive

is that pictorial is of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures while descriptive is of or relating to description.

As nouns the difference between pictorial and descriptive

is that pictorial is a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof while descriptive is (grammar) an adjective (or other descriptive word).

pictorial

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.
  • Described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • Stylistically similar to a painting, especially following pictorial conventions (of a photograph) – see pictorialism.
  • Usage notes

    Can be used comparatively “Could you give a more pictorial treatment of this subject?” but this usage is uncommon.

    Derived terms

    * pictorial convention * pictorialism * pictorially

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof
  • an article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs
  • (philately) a stamp featuring a vignette of local scenery or culture.
  • Usage notes

    * Individual titles will be capitalized e.g. "Sunday Pictorial" * In sense “an article consisting primarily of photographs”, particularly used of photographs of people, as in “The budding starlet is featured in a pictorial in a glossy magazine next week.”

    Coordinate terms

    * (collection of images) gallery, slideshow

    descriptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to description.
  • (grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy'' in ''the heavy dictionary ).
  • (linguistics)   Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
  • (science, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}

    Antonyms

    * (science) prescriptive, normative, non-descriptive

    Derived terms

    * descriptively * descriptiveness * descriptive ethics * descriptive geometry * descriptive statistics

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An adjective (or other descriptive word)
  • See also

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