iconographic
adjective
icon·o·graph·ic (ˌ)ī-ˌkä-nə-ˈgra-fik 
variants or iconographical
(ˌ)ī-ˌkä-nə-ˈgra-fi-kəl
1
: of or relating to iconography
2
: representing something by pictures or diagrams
iconographically
(ˌ)ī-ˌkä-nə-ˈgra-fi-k(ə-)lē
adverb 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The Duffers draw primarily from the iconographic genre of the '70s and '80s for Stranger Things, which makes sense for a show so evocative of Amblin-style suburbs. 
Randall Colburn, EW.com, 31 May 2022 The gallery collaborated with Nicolas Descharnes, a Salvador Dalí specialist, and Carlos Evaristo, an iconographic expert, to authenticate the sculpture. Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2022 Such an iconographic challenge would go against The Heart Part 5’s simplistic, unclear politics. Armond White, National Review, 11 May 2022 The golden, iconographic necklaces, headpieces, and bracelets, paired with Moroccan-style jester shoes, defined the label’s vision of a multicultural runway. Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022 Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls. Pilar Guzman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021 Even this early piece suggests the elements that would become his signature: the visible painterly touch, the iconographic black on white, the reverberations of the past in our present. Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas And Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021 This piece is a poem, a metaphorical rendering of wrestling with those stories, using iconographic texts. Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Oct. 2021 If nothing else, the long iconographic tradition of Saint Sebastian in Western iconography gets a new chapter. BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021 See More
Randall Colburn, EW.com, 31 May 2022 The gallery collaborated with Nicolas Descharnes, a Salvador Dalí specialist, and Carlos Evaristo, an iconographic expert, to authenticate the sculpture. Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2022 Such an iconographic challenge would go against The Heart Part 5’s simplistic, unclear politics. Armond White, National Review, 11 May 2022 The golden, iconographic necklaces, headpieces, and bracelets, paired with Moroccan-style jester shoes, defined the label’s vision of a multicultural runway. Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022 Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls. Pilar Guzman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021 Even this early piece suggests the elements that would become his signature: the visible painterly touch, the iconographic black on white, the reverberations of the past in our present. Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas And Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021 This piece is a poem, a metaphorical rendering of wrestling with those stories, using iconographic texts. Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Oct. 2021 If nothing else, the long iconographic tradition of Saint Sebastian in Western iconography gets a new chapter. BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
circa 1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1
iconographic
adjective
variants or iconographical
as in pictographic
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- pictographic
- illustrative
- hieroglyphic
- hieroglyphical
- illustrational
- ideographic
- photographic
- painted
- pictorial
- ideogrammatic
- represented
- drawn
- ideogrammic
- video
- ideogramic
- graphic
- visual
- graphical
- imaginal