photographic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to photography.
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used in, or produced by means of, photography.
photographic equipment; the photographic coverage of a newspaper.
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suggestive of a photograph; extremely realistic and detailed.
photographic accuracy.
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remembering, reproducing, or functioning with the precision of a photograph.
a photographic memory.
adjective
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of or relating to photography
a photographic society
photographic materials
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like a photograph in accuracy or detail
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(of a person's memory) able to retain facts, appearances, etc, in precise detail, often after only a very short view of or exposure to them
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of photographic
First recorded in 1839; photograph + -ic
Vocabulary lists containing photographic
Example Sentences
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He went several times to a show of portraits by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres at London’s National Gallery in 1999 and was greatly taken with the photographic quality of Ingres’ 19th century drawings.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
“Like an image emerging from an old photographic negative, the long-buried truth surfaces gradually,” writes Anna Mundow of Emma Garman’s suspenseful debut novel.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
According to Cottrill, the group pushed for repeated aesthetic changes to make Trump appear slimmer and more idealized than the photographic references he was initially using.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
But neither that nor two other forms of photographic identification from U.S. detention facilities “were sufficient to satisfy the Mexican Consulate.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
West Indian Archie had the kind of photographic memory that put him among the elite of numbers runners.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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