Meaning

6 senses

  1. Any element of something that depends on sight.

  2. An image; a picture; a graphic.

  3. (in the plural)All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.

  4. A preliminary sketch.

  5. 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.

  6. (plural, slang, usually)A hallucination perceived as seen by the eyes, such as from psilocybin.

Examples

57 sentences

  1. I'm a very visual person.

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  2. Tom is a visual thinker.

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  3. I'm losing visual contact with you.

    ruЯ теряю тебя из виду.

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  4. I have a good visual memory.

    ruУ меня хорошая зрительная память.

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  5. I have an excellent visual memory.

    ruУ меня отличная зрительная память.

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Origin

From Middle English visual, from French visuel, visual and directly from Late Latin vīsuāl

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.

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Forms

plural: visuals
Singularvisual
Pluralvisuals

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
visorvistavisualizevisuallyB1vitavitalB2
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