visual
/ˈvɪʒuːəl/US/ˈvɪʒuəl/
visual adjective: related to or affecting the vision.
Adjective
visual (comparative more visual, superlative most visual)
- Related to or affecting the vision.
- 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...2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
- That can be seen; visible.
Noun
visual (plural visuals)
- Any element of something that depends on sight.
- 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.2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5
- An image; a picture; a graphic.
- All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
- A preliminary sketch.
- 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.
- A hallucination perceived as seen by the eyes, such as from psilocybin.
visual meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
visual in Tamil
- காட்சி சார், காணும் படியான, காட்சி சார்ந்த, பார்வைக்குரிய, பார்வைக் கூர்மை
visual in Marathi
- दृश्यात्मक
visual in Urdu
- بصری, نظر آنےوالا, نظری, روئیتی
visual in Bengali
- চাক্ষুষ, দৃষ্টিলব্ধ, দৃষ্টিসংক্রান্ত, চক্ষুসংক্রান্ত
More languagesFewer languages
- visual in Telugu
- విజువల్
- visual in Malayalam
- കണ്ണിനെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, ദൃഷ്ടിഗോചരമായ, കാഴ്ച സംബന്ധിച്ച
- visual in Kannada
- ನೋಟದ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯ, ದೃಷ್ಟಿಗೋಚರ, ನೋಡಲು ಬಳಸುವ, ಕಣ್ಣಿನ
- visual in Punjabi
- ਵਿਜ਼ੂਅਲ
- visual in Gujarati
- વિઝ્યુઅલ
- visual in Odia
- ଭିଜୁଆଲ୍
- visual in Nepali
- भिजुअल, दृश्यात्मक
- visual in Tagalog
- tanawin
- visual in Arabic
- بَصَرِيّ baṣariyy
- visual in Indonesian
- visual
Examples of visual in a sentence
- He tried to shoot the visual approach to runway 12, but the visibility was too low.
- Users who dislike the new visual layout can return to classic mode.
- A slice of passion fruit was added to the dessert for visual interest.
Forms of visual
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more visual |
| superlative | most visual |
| alternative form (obsolete, rare) | visuall |
| Noun | |
| plural | visuals |
Origin of visual
From Middle English visual, from French visuel, visual and directly from Late Latin vīsuālis (“of sight”), from vīsus (“sight, vision”) + -ālis (“adjective suffix”), from vidēre (“to see, perceive; look (at)”); see visage. By surface analysis, Latin vīsus + -ual.
Words formed from visual
- audiovisual
- extravisual
- geovisual
- hypervisual
- key visual
- musivisual
- neurovisual
- nonvisual
- paravisual
- photovisual
- previsual
- psychovisual
- quasivisual
- subvisual
- supervisual
- televisual
- unvisual
- visual acuity
- visual aid
- visual angle
- visual area 4
- visual area V4
- visual art
- visual artist
- visual arts
- visual axis
- visual binary
- visual cortex
- visual diary
- visual dictionary
- visual display unit
- visual effects
- visual field
- visual hole
- visualise
- visualism
- visualist
- visuality
- visualize
- visual kei
- visual language
- visually
- visual magnitude
- visual merchandiser
- visual merchandising
- visual migraine
- visualness
- visual novel
- visual poem
- visual poetry
- visual pollution
- visual presenter
- visual programming language
- visual proximity
- visual pun
- visual purple
- visual rhyme
- visual servoing
- visual-shock kei
- visual snow
Phrases with visual
- visual aids
- visual axes
- visual puns
- visual text
- Visual Basic
- visual holes
- visual poems
- visual space
- visual texts
- visual white
- visual angles
- visual effect
27 more phrasesFewer phrases
- visual fields
- visual novels
- visual rhymes
- visual spaces
- visual streak
- visual yellow
- visual artists
- visual diaries
- visual streaks
- had a visual on
- has a visual on
- visual acuities
- visual binaries
- visual cortexes
- visual cortices
- have a visual on
- visual languages
- visual migraines
- visual voicemail
- visual magnitudes
- visual presenters
- having a visual on
- visual proximities
- visual dictionaries
- visual display units
- visual merchandisers
- visual programming languages
Questions about visual
- What does visual mean?
- Visual means related to or affecting the vision.
- What is visual in Tamil?
- Visual in Tamil is காட்சி சார், காணும் படியான, காட்சி சார்ந்த. See Visual meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is visual?
- Visual can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce visual?
- Visual is pronounced /ˈvɪʒuːəl/ (UK).
Words near visual in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: visual (page history and authors); visual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visual (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visual (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visual (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visual (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visual (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visual (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visual (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visual (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visual (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visual (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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