Perspective | Mean of perspective in English Dictionary

/pɚˈspɛktɪv/

• Noun
• a way of thinking about and understanding something (such as a particular issue or life in general)
1. He helped us see the problem from a new perspective. [=angle, point of view]
2. The story is told from the perspective of a teenage boy in the 1940s.
3. marriage as seen from a male/female perspective
4. From an economic perspective, the policy has some merit.
5. a critique of the war from a historical perspective
6. My grandmother has a surprisingly modern perspective [=outlook] on life.
7. They had totally different perspectives on the war.
8. He had a complete change of perspective after his illness.
• a condition in which a person knows which things are important and does not worry or think about unimportant things
1. He had lost all sense of perspective and believed that his life was ruined.
2. She helped him put his life in proper perspective.
3. Seeing how difficult their lives are has really put my problems into perspective.
• the ability to understand which things are truly important and which things are not
1. Try to keep/maintain your perspective and not get too worried about it.
2. I was trying to gain some perspective on the things that I learned in college. [=I was deciding which things were important and which things were not]

• the angle or direction that a person uses to look at an object
1. She drew the building from several different perspectives.
2. From this perspective, the city looks peaceful.
• a way of showing depth or distance in a painting or drawing by making the objects that are far away smaller and making the objects that are closer to the viewer larger
1. I admire her use of perspective in her paintings.
2. a drawing done in perspective = a perspective drawing