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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The decision came after a five-day preliminary hearing, in which Los Angeles prosecutors questioned a dozen witnesses and displayed photographic evidence as 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's family watched on.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Soon, Brady’s portrait, harnessing the new technology of mass-produced photographic printing, was everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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