visual

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Late Latin vīsuālis, equivalent to vīsu(s) sight (vid(ēre) to see + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > s) + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

non·vis·u·al, adjective

sub·vis·u·al, adjective, noun

su·per·vis·u·al, adjective

su·per·vis·u·al·ly, adverb

un·vis·u·al, adjective

un·vis·u·al·ly, adverb

Can be confused: visible, visual.

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visual (ˈvɪʒʊəl, -zjʊ-)

—*adj*
1.	of, relating to, done by, or used in seeing: visual powers; visual steering
2.	another word for optical
3.	capable of being seen; visible
4.	of, occurring as, or induced by a mental image

—n
5.	a sketch to show the proposed layout of an advertisement, as in a newspaper
6.	(often plural) a photograph, film, or other display material

[C15: from Late Latin vīsuālis, from Latin vīsus sight, from vidēre to see]

'visually

—*adv*

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visual

early 15c., "coming from the eye or sight" (as a beam of light), from L.L. visualis "of sight," from L. visus "sight," from visus, pp. of videre "to see" (see vision). Meaning "relating to vision" is first attested c.1600. The noun meaning "photographic film or other visual

display" is first recorded 1951. Related: Visually.

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Medical Dictionary

visual vi·su·al (vĭzh'&oomacr;-əl)
adj.

Of or relating to the sense of sight.
Seen or able to be seen by the eye; visible.
Optical.

Example sentences

But simply piling on the pixels will not be enough to match the rich visual experience of human eyes.

Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side.

But a new media company has a vision that's more, well, visual: it hopes to bring the concept of citizen journalism to television.

We want to immerse you in the visual side of the news and highlight photography that pushes boundaries in the art world.

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"As the distinctions among the arts are distinctions among the sensorial directions of aesthetic expression (sight, speech, hearing), the visual arts crystallize a state of mind at its farthest point, where it borders on the images of things. The verbal arts seem instead to arrest the uncertain impression which a state of mind produces in us before it assumes that simplification which is able to reconcile it with space and make it a visual image. One is reminded of what Matthew Arnold said, that "poetry is more intellectual than art, more interpretative ... poetry is less artistic than the arts, but in closer correspondence with the intelligential nature of man, who is defined, as we know, 'a thinking animal'"; poetry thinks and arts do not."

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