Picture
nounNoun
a graphic or vivid verbal description
“too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures”
“the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland”
Type of:Descriptiona clear and telling mental image
“he described his mental picture of his assailant”
“he had no clear picture of himself or his world”
Similar:ImpressionType of:Imagegraphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
“his pictures hang in the Louvre”
Similar:Paintinga visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
“they showed us the pictures of their wedding”
a situation treated as an observable object
“the political picture is favorable”
Similar:SceneType of:Situationillustrations used to decorate or explain a text
“the dictionary had many pictures”
Type of:Illustrationthe visible part of a television transmission
“they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone”
Similar:Videoa typical example of some state or quality
“the very picture of a modern general”
“she was the picture of despair”
Type of:TypificationExemplificationa form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
Type of:Representation
Verb
show in, or as in, a picture
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA