visual

• visuall (obsolete, rare)

From Middle English vysual, from Old French, from Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”), from videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see visage.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪʒuːəl/, /ˈvɪzjuːəl/, /ˈvɪʒəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪʒuəl/, /ˈvɪʒwəl/

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.

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. (marching band) 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.

• have a visual on

• “visual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “visual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Auvils

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

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

visual (epicene, plural visuales)

1. visual

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bi.zuˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [vi.zuˈal]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: vi‧su‧al

visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuals)

1. visual

• audiovisual
• visualitzar
• visualment

• “visual”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “visual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “visual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “visual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

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

visual m or f (plural visuais)

1. visual

• visualmente

• “visual”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “visual” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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

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

visual

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

• “visual” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• visuau

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

1. visual

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 737.

• IPA^(key): /viˈzɥal/

visual f (plural visuaj)

1. view

visual

1. visual

Learned borrowing from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

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

visual m or f (plural visuais)

1. visual

visual m (plural visuais)

1. look, style

   Synonym: look

• “visual” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

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

visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuales)

1. visual

• “visual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024