Collocations for picture - noun

attractive, beautiful, lovely, striking, stunning, wonderful | blurred | black and white, colour | posed

draw, paint | colour in
The book has simple stories and pictures to colour in.

frame, hang, mount | display, exhibit, show | pose for, sit for | get, snap, take
I got some good pictures of the procession.

touch up

depict sth, show sth | hang

frame | book, postcard | gallery | hook, rail | editor

in a/the ~
I can''t see you in the picture. | The story is told in pictures.

~ of
It''s a picture of a country village.

vivid
The book gives a vivid picture of life in Victorian England.

clear | complete, comprehensive, full, general, overall, total, whole
The programme was interesting but it didn''t give the full picture.

incomplete | broad
My visits enabled me to build up a broad picture of the culture.

composite
Through interviews and old photos we put together a composite picture of life in the village a hundred years ago.

accurate, balanced, realistic, representative, true | false, misleading, one-sided, over-simplified, unbalanced | idealized, optimistic, rosy | bleak, depressing, dismal, gloomy, grim, negative
The report paints a dismal picture of the government''s economic record.

confused, distorted | detailed | complex, complicated | disturbing | mental
I tried to form a mental picture of the building being described.

historical

build (up), construct, create, develop, establish, form, gain, get, obtain, put together
They''re trying to build up a detailed picture of the incident.

give, paint, present, project, reveal
The figures reveal a disturbing picture of the state of our schools.

complete | conjure up
The smell of the sea conjures up pictures of children playing on the beach.

emerge
What emerges is a complex picture of family rivalry.