telegenic
/ˌtɛləˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
telegenic adjective: having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers.
Adjective
telegenic (comparative more telegenic, superlative most telegenic)
- Having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers.
- The young politician was very telegenic.
- Then again, TV politicking simply selects for politicians who are good at TV — charismatic-cool like Mr. Obama, provocative-hot like Mr. Trump — and being telegenic does not necessarily mean having good policy or judgment or decision-making instincts.2024 July 22, James Poniewozik, “One Night of TV Canceled a President”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- televisual
Forms of telegenic
| comparative | more telegenic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most telegenic |
Origin of telegenic
From tele- + -genic, by analogy with photogenic.
Words formed from telegenic
Words that rhyme with telegenic
- autogenic
- schizophrenic
- Hellenic
- heterogenic
- photogenic
- allergenic
- angiotenic
- anthropogenic
- biogenic
- cacogenic
- cariogenic
- catagenic
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- dysgenic
- eugenic
- hypoallergenic
- mutagenic
- oncogenic
- pathogenic
- phrenic
- pyrogenic
- selenic
- anogenic
- antigenic
- asthenic
- callisthenic
- carcinogenic
- cinegenic
- cryogenic
- cytogenic
- dissociogenic
- dynamogenic
- fennec
- fibroadipogenic
- galenic
- haemogenic
- hallucinogenic
- ketogenic
- lactigenic
- linolenic
- multiantigenic
- neurasthenic
- neuritogenic
- nonleukemogenic
- ontogenic
- paratenic
- prothrombogenic
- spermatogenic
- sthenic
- supramitogenic
- thermogenic
- thiophenic
- thrombogenic
- toxicogenic
- tungstenic
- typhogenic
- zoogenic
Questions about telegenic
- What does telegenic mean?
- Telegenic means having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers.
- What part of speech is telegenic?
- Telegenic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce telegenic?
- Telegenic is pronounced /ˌtɛləˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/.
Words near telegenic in the dictionary
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