Meaning

3 senses
  1. The totality of a situation.

    Gesamtbild, Gesamteindruck, das große Ganze

    о́бщая карти́наóbščaja kartína, о́бщая ситуа́цияóbščaja situácija, о́бщая обстано́вкаóbščaja obstanóvka

  2. (Ireland, UK, dated)The main film in a double feature.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, picture.

Examples

22 sentences
  1. You're both missing the big picture.

  2. Let's look at the big picture.

  3. You're not looking at the big picture.

  4. Try to look at the big picture.

  5. You're not looking at the big picture here.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
totality of a situation:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
totality of a situation:

Origin

From a figurative sense of picture meaning "situation." First attested in 1904.

From a figurative sense of picture meaning "situation." First attested in 1904.

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Forms

plural: big pictures
Singularbig picture
Pluralbig pictures

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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