visual

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɪʒuːəl/, /ˈvɪzjuːəl/, /ˈvɪʒəl/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈvɪʒuəl/, /ˈvɪʒwəl/

Adjective

visual (comparative more visual, superlative most visual)

  1. Related to or affecting the vision.
    • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
      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 crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
  2. (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

visual (plural visuals)

  1. Any element of something that depends on sight.
    • 2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5:
      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.
  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. (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
  5. (music) 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. (usually plural, slang) A hallucination perceived as seen by the eyes, such as from psilocybin.

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Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biˈswal/ [biˈswal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: vi‧sual

Adjective

visual (epicene, plural visuales)

  1. visual

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuals)

  1. visual

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *widtós
Proto-Italic *wissos
Latin vīsus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Late Latin visuālislbor.
Galician visual

    Learned borrowing from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin vīsus (“the action of looking; vision”) + -ālis.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /biˈswal/ [biˈs̺wɑɫ]
    • Rhymes: -al
    • Hyphenation: vi‧sual

    Adjective

    visual m or f (plural visuais)

    1. visual

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Indonesian

    Etymology

    From Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [viˈsual]
    • Hyphenation: vi‧su‧al

    Adjective

    visual

    1. visual
      1. related to or affecting the vision
      2. that can be seen; visible

    Derived terms

    • memvisualkan (“to visualise”)
    • pemvisualan (“visualisation”)

    Further reading

    Occitan

    Alternative forms

    • visuau

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    visual m (feminine singular visuala, masculine plural visuals, feminine plural visualas)

    1. visual

    Further reading

    • Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2026, page 737

    Piedmontese

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /viˈzɥal/

    Noun

    visual f (plural visuaj)

    1. view

    Adjective

    visual

    1. visual

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Proto-Indo-European *widtós
    Proto-Italic *wissos
    Latin vīsus
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
    Proto-Indo-European *-is
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
    Proto-Italic *-ālis
    Latin -ālis
    Late Latin visuālislbor.
    Portuguese visual

      Learned borrowing from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin vīsus (“the action of looking; vision”) + -ālis.

      Pronunciation

      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /vi.zuˈaw/ [vi.zuˈaʊ̯], (faster) /viˈzwaw/ [viˈzwaʊ̯]
       
      • (Portugal) IPA(key): /viˈzwal/ [viˈzwaɫ]
        • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /biˈzwal/ [biˈzwaɫ]
        • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /viˈzwa.li/

      • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
      • Hyphenation: vi‧su‧al

      Adjective

      visual m or f (plural visuais)

      1. visual

      Derived terms

      Noun

      visual m (plural visuais)

      1. look, style
        Synonym: look

      Further reading

      Spanish

      Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
      Proto-Indo-European *-tós
      Proto-Indo-European *widtós
      Proto-Italic *wissos
      Latin vīsus
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
      Proto-Indo-European *-is
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
      Proto-Italic *-ālis
      Latin -ālis
      Late Latin visuālislbor.
      Spanish visual

        Learned borrowing from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin vīsus (“the action of looking; vision”) + -ālis.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /biˈswal/ [biˈswal]
          • Rhymes: -al
        • IPA(key): /bisuˈal/ [bi.suˈal]
          • Rhymes: -al
        • Syllabification: vi‧sual, vi‧su‧al

        Adjective

        visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuales)

        1. visual

        Derived terms

        Further reading

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