PICTURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pictured mean? 

• PICTURED (adjective)
  The adjective PICTURED has 2 senses:

1. seen in the mind as a mental image

2. represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

  Familiarity information: PICTURED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICTURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seen in the mind as a mental image

Synonyms:

envisioned; pictured; visualised; visualized

Context example:

the visualized scene lacked the ugly details of real life

Similar:

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

Synonyms:

depicted; pictured; portrayed

Similar:

delineate; delineated; represented (represented accurately or precisely)

 Context examples 

But I thought, also, of my mother and sisters, and pictured their grief.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yet I will not deny that you have pictured the castle as well as I could have done myself, and I am full of wonderment at all that I have heard and seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The region of sky pictured is listed in the Sharpless catalogue of H II regions: interstellar clouds of ionised gas, rife with star formation.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes’ succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was remarkably animated.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I watched the captain’s face flush fiery-red, and then turn to a livid white as he listened to those bitter words which told him of his infamy, my revenge was sweeter—far sweeter—than my most pleasant dreams had ever pictured it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the way to Putney, Agnes being inside the stage-coach, and I outside, I pictured Dora to myself in every one of the pretty looks I knew so well; now making up my mind that I should like her to look exactly as she looked at such a time, and then doubting whether I should not prefer her looking as she looked at such another time; and almost worrying myself into a fever about it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the society of her two friends, and the attentions of their brother; and Elizabeth thought with pleasure of dancing a great deal with Mr. Wickham, and of seeing a confirmation of everything in Mr. Darcy's look and behaviour.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Her eyes filled with tears as she pictured her acquaintance so renewed; and her mother, perceiving her comfortable suggestions to have had no good effect, proposed, as another expedient for restoring her spirits, that they should call on Mrs. Allen.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then he pictured the solidification, the cooling, the wrinkling which formed the mountains, the steam which turned to water, the slow preparation of the stage upon which was to be played the inexplicable drama of life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)