# visual
## English
### Alternative forms

* visuall (obsolete, rare)

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

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

### Adjective

visual (comparative more visual, superlative most visual)
* 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.
* (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.

#### Derived terms

* audiovisual
* nonvisual
* visual acuity
* visual aid
* visual angle
* visual art
* visual artist
* visual arts
* visual axis
* visual binary
* visual cortex
* visual diary
* visual dictionary
* visual display unit
* visual effects
* visual field
* visualization
* visualize
* visual kei
* visual language
* visually
* visual magnitude
* visual merchandising
* visual novel
* visual poem
* visual poetry
* visual pollution
* visual presenter
* visual programming language
* visual proximity
* visual pun
* visual purple
* visual rhyme
* visual servoing
* visual snow
* visual space
* visual streak
* visual text
* visual voicemail
* visual white
* visual yellow
* VLOS

#### Related terms

* envisage
* evidence
* visage
* visible
* vision
* visionary

#### Translations
### Noun

visual (plural visuals)
* 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.
* An image; a picture; a graphic.
* (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
* (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* have a visual on

### Further reading

* “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.

### Anagrams

* Auvils

## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biˈswal/ [biˈswal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: vi‧sual

### Adjective

visual (epicene, plural visuales)
* visual

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [bi.zuˈal]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [vi.zuˈal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: vi‧su‧al

### Adjective

visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuals)
* visual

#### Derived terms

* audiovisual
* visualitzar
* visualment

### Further reading

* “visual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

## Galician
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biˈswal/ [biˈs̺wɑɫ]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: vi‧sual

### Adjective

visual m or f (plural visuais)
* visual

#### Derived terms

* visualmente

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [viˈsual]
* Hyphenation: vi‧su‧al

### Adjective

visual
* visual
** related to or affecting the vision
** that can be seen; visible

#### Derived terms

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

### Further reading

* “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.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* visuau

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Adjective

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

### Further reading

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

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /viˈzɥal/

### Noun

visual f (plural visuaj)
* view

### Adjective

visual
* visual

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /vi.zuˈaw/ [vi.zʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /viˈzwaw/ [viˈzwaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /viˈzwal/ [viˈzwaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /viˈzwal/ [viˈzwaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /biˈzwal/ [biˈzwaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /viˈzwa.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: vi‧su‧al

### Adjective

visual m or f (plural visuais)
* visual

#### Derived terms

* audiovisual
* visualizar
* visualmente

### Noun

visual m (plural visuais)
* look, style
    Synonym: look

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biˈswal/ [biˈswal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: vi‧sual

### Adjective

visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuales)
* visual

#### Derived terms

* agudeza visual
* audiovisual
* campo visual
* contacto visual
* novela visual
* poema visual
* visualmente

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10