- of or connected with seeing or sight
- the visual arts
- The building makes a tremendous visual impact.
- dramatic visual effects
- visual artists
- I have a very good visual memory.
- A reader creates visual images of the characters in a novel.
- The photographs she takes are a visual record of her travels.
- The company relied on simple visual inspections of the tunnels to confirm their safety.
- A driverless vehicle identifies visual cues on the road, such as other cars or traffic signs.
Extra Examples- The website will be very visual.
- the film's unique visual style
Oxford Collocations DictionaryVisual is used with these nouns:- aid
- appeal
- appearance
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (originally describing a beam imagined to proceed from the eye and make vision possible): from late Latin visualis, from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’. The current noun sense dates from the 1950s.Want to learn more?
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