photographic

Sometimes pho·to·graph·i·cal

[foh-tuh-graf-ik]

adjective

1. of or relating to photography.

2. used in, or produced by means of, photography.

   photographic equipment; the photographic coverage of a newspaper.

3. suggestive of a photograph; extremely realistic and detailed.

   photographic accuracy.

4. remembering, reproducing, or functioning with the precision of a photograph.

   a photographic memory.

photographic

/ ˌfəʊtəˈɡræfɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to photography

   a photographic society

   photographic materials

2. like a photograph in accuracy or detail

3. (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

• photographically adverb
• nonphotographic adjective
• nonphotographical adjective
• nonphotographically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of photographic¹

First recorded in 1839; photograph + -ic

Example Sentences

She once relied on an almost photographic memory to learn scripts, but now must have lines read aloud to her.

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The suspects' activities, which took place this week in Warsaw and the eastern city of Bialystok, included "transmitting photographic documentation of critical infrastructure and key sites for state security."

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Meanwhile, another photographic medium was in ascendance, one that favored kinetics over color, movement over stillness—the movies.

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Earlier this year the Macrons' lawyer in the case, Tom Clare, told the BBC the couple would present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove Mrs Macron is a woman.

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One person was asked to provide photographic evidence, another was spoken to in person, while a third who had provided a DNA sample independently had their sequence compared to Madeleine's.

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Related Words

• cinematic 
• pictorial 
• visual 
• vivid