Definition of pictures

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• pictures is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
• pictures is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
• pictures is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 15

Definition of pictures

• graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface (noun)

  Examples

  1. his pictures hang in the Louvre

  Synonyms

  1. painting
• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface (noun)

  Examples

  1. they showed us the pictures of their wedding

  Synonyms

  1. icon
  2. ikon
  3. image
• a situation treated as an observable object (noun)

  Examples

  1. the political picture is favorable

  Synonyms

  1. scene
• show in, or as in, a picture (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. depict
  2. render
  3. show
• illustrations used to decorate or explain a text (noun)

  Examples

  1. the dictionary had many pictures

  Synonyms

  1. pictorial matter
• a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. film
  2. flick
  3. motion-picture show
  4. motion picture
  5. movie
  6. moving-picture show
  7. moving picture
  8. pic
  9. picture show
• a graphic or vivid verbal description (noun)

  Examples

  1. too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
  2. the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland

  Synonyms

  1. characterisation
  2. characterization
  3. delineation
  4. depiction
  5. word-painting
  6. word picture
• a clear and telling mental image (noun)

  Examples

  1. he described his mental picture of his assailant
  2. he had no clear picture of himself or his world

  Synonyms

  1. impression
  2. mental picture
• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. envision
  2. fancy
  3. figure
  4. image
  5. project
  6. see
  7. visualise
  8. visualize
• the visible part of a television transmission (noun)

  Examples

  1. they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone

  Synonyms

  1. video
• a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. exposure
  2. photo
  3. photograph
  4. pic
• a typical example of some state or quality (noun)

  Examples

  1. the very picture of a modern general
  2. she was the picture of despair

See definition of pictures in Merriam Webster