photographic

[ 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

Derived Forms

• ˌphotoˈgraphically, adverb

Other Words From

• photo·graphi·cal·ly adverb
• nonpho·to·graphic adjective
• nonpho·to·graphi·cal adjective
• nonpho·to·graphi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of photographic¹

First recorded in 1839; photograph + -ic

Example Sentences

Removing their shoes to prevent leaving boot prints, the engineers climbed in through the truck’s roof in their stocking feet, carrying a drop light and photographic equipment.

From MIT Technology Review

Navistar Direct Marketing fired him “after a review of photographic evidence.”

From Vox

Tom Greaves took a photographic portrait, cut it into strips and reassembled it so it appears whole yet fragile.

From Washington Post

Iconic photographer Ansel Adams considered his negatives the photographic equivalent of a musical score, and the prints were the performances.

From Popular-Science

Revel added training videos, tests and a helmet selfie feature that requires photographic evidence the user is wearing a helmet, as well as a community reporting tool.

From TechCrunch

Throughout the rest of the room are similar examples of photographic inspiration.

From The Daily Beast

In one of my homicides, I had one wonderful witness, a legit Good Samaritan with 20-20 vision and photographic memory.

From The Daily Beast

At least in the photographic darkroom, the first time you go in, the lights are on.

From The Daily Beast

Pistoletto uses life-size mirrors as a base on which he adds painted figures or photographic prints.

From The Daily Beast

Lots of photographs, photographic websites, or libraries in London.

From The Daily Beast

The one given in the present volume is a photographic facsimile of the Harvard original.

From Project Gutenberg

Petri dish or cleaned photographic plates for sputum examination.

From Project Gutenberg

Your inquiry as to the best mode of constructing a glass chamber for photographic purposes will be answered in our next.

From Project Gutenberg

This effect has no doubt been accentuated in the subsequent photographic processes.

From Project Gutenberg

For this reason the photographic images are less sensitive to conditions affecting the seeing than the visual images.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cinematic
• pictorial
• visual
• vivid