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photographic

[ˌfoʊɾəˈɡɹæfɪk]/ˌfəʊtəˈɡɹæfɪk/

photographic adjective: pertaining to photographs or photography.

Adjective

photographic (comparative more photographic, superlative most photographic)

  1. Pertaining to photographs or photography.
    • This shop stocks all the latest photographic equipment.
    • There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150
  2. (figuratively) Synonym of accurate.
    • What each evangelist preserved is not a photographic reproduction of the words and deeds of Jesus, but an interpretative portrait delineated in accord with the special needs of the early church.
    Synonyms:
    accurate

photographic meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Gujarati

photographic in Tamil

ஒளிப்பட, ஒளிப்படத்துக்குரிய

photographic in Bengali

আলোকচিত্র সংক্রান্ত, ফটোগ্রাফিক

photographic in Malayalam

പടമെടുക്കുന്നതു സംബന്ധിച്ച

photographic in Gujarati

photographic or videographic film
ચિત્રપટ citrapaṭ
More languagesFewer languages
photographic in Tagalog
sangnginagin
photographic in Indonesian
fotografis

Examples of photographic in a sentence

  • Unexposed photographic film must be kept in a lightproof container or it will be exposed and ruined.
  • A positive photograph can be developed from a photographic negative.
  • Dosimeters normally take the form of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), photographic film, thermoluminescent devices (TLD) or electronic personal dosimeters (PDM).

All 29 example sentences with photographic

Synonyms of photographic

Forms of photographic

comparativemore photographic
superlativemost photographic

Origin of photographic

From photo- + -graphic or photograph + -ic.

Words formed from photographic

Phrases with photographic

Words that rhyme with photographic

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about photographic

What does photographic mean?
Photographic means pertaining to photographs or photography.
What is photographic in Tamil?
Photographic in Tamil is ஒளிப்பட, ஒளிப்படத்துக்குரிய. See Photographic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is photographic?
Photographic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce photographic?
Photographic is pronounced /ˌfəʊtəˈɡɹæfɪk/ (UK).

Words near photographic in the dictionary

  1. photographers
  2. photographess
  3. photographesses
  4. photographette
  5. photographettes
  6. photographic
  7. photographic artist
  8. photographic artists
  9. photographic emulsion
  10. photographic emulsions
  11. photographic interpretation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photographic (page history and authors); photographic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Photographic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); photographic (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ચિત્રપટ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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