Visual ˈvɪʒuəl Adjective Arts Building Makes Tremendous Impact

• the visual arts
• the building makes a tremendous visual impact.
• dramatic visual effects
• visual artists

visual

1. of or connected with seeing or sight
• the visual arts
• The building makes a tremendous visual impact.
• dramatic visual effects
• visual artists
• I have a very good visual memory.
• A reader creates visual images of the characters in a novel.
• The photographs she takes are a visual record of her travels.
• The company relied on simple visual inspections of the tunnels to confirm their safety.
• A driverless vehicle identifies visual cues on the road, such as other cars or traffic signs.

Extra Examples

• The website will be very visual.
• the film's unique visual style

Word Origin

• late Middle English (originally describing a beam imagined to proceed from the eye and make vision possible): from late Latin visualis, from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’. The current noun sense dates from the 1950s.