visual
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- visuall (obsolete, rare)
Etymology edit
From Middle English vysual, from Old French, from Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”), from videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see visage.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɪʒuːəl/, /ˈvɪzjuːəl/, /ˈvɪʒəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈvɪʒuəl/, /ˈvɪʒwəl/
Adjective edit
visual (comparative more visual, superlative most visual)
- Related to or affecting the vision.
- 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
- Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close […] above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
- (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.
Derived terms edit
- audiovisual
- nonvisual
- visual acuity
- visual aid
- visual angle
- visual art
- visual artist
- visual arts
- visual axis
- visual binary
- visual cortex
- visual diary
- visual display unit
- visual field
- visualization
- visualize
- visual kei
- visual language
- visually
- visual magnitude
- visual merchandising
- visual novel
- visual poem
- visual poetry
- visual pollution
- visual presenter
- visual programming language
- visual proximity
- visual pun
- visual purple
- visual rhyme
- visual servoing
- visual snow
- visual space
- visual streak
- visual text
- visual voicemail
- visual white
- visual yellow
- VLOS
Related terms edit
Translations edit
Noun edit
visual (plural visuals)
- Any element of something that depends on sight.
- 2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5:
- It wasn't the first time I pulled an all-nighter, but normally I was coming off an acid trip and still seeing visuals dancing around in my head.
- An image; a picture; a graphic.
- (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
- (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
- (marching band) Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.
- The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “visual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “visual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuals)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “visual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “visual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “visual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “visual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
visual m or f (plural visuais)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “visual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
visual
- visual
- related to or affecting the vision.
- that can be seen; visible.
Derived terms edit
- memvisualkan (“to visualise”)
- pemvisualan (“visualisation”)
Further reading edit
- “visual” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Piedmontese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
visual f (plural visuaj)
Adjective edit
visual
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
visual m or f (plural visuais)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
visual m (plural visuais)
Further reading edit
- “visual” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuales)
- visual
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “visual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014