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View synonyms for photographic

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • photographically adverb
  • nonphotographic adjective
  • nonphotographical adjective
  • nonphotographically adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of photographic1

First recorded in 1839; photograph + -ic
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Example Sentences

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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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Also among the more engaging works are two well-known photographic excursions into the landscape.

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Or France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron, who is planning to present photographic and scientific evidence that she was born female in court after months of rightwing influencer Candace Owens claiming that she was born male.

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The Glasgow tree narrowly beat the King of Limbs Oak that inspired a Radiohead album, and the photographic Lonely Tree, which sits on the edge of the Llyn Padarn lake in North Wales.

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What’s left is a spectral scene, ghosted by the limitations of old black-and-white photographic technology and further heightened by the uneven glow generated by the camera’s flashbulb.

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