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photogenic
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A subject (generally a person) is photogenic if appearing aesthetically or physically attractive or appealing in photographs . Photogenic drawing, coined by William Fox Talbot , also describes the earliest method for recording images.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, "produced or caused by light," from photo- "light" + -genic "produced by" (see genus ). Originally in photogenic drawing , the early term for "photography;" meaning "photographing well" is first attested 1928, from photo- as short for "photograph."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Photogenic \Pho`to*gen"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I'm not very photogenic . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Around him, knowing people, people who were born eating this stuff, are conversing in that world-weary but photogenic way. ▪ Both women are stunning - and photogenic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Generated or caused by light. 2 Producing or emitting light, luminescent. 3 look good when photographed.
Usage examples of photogenic.
His Slavic cheekbones and crew-cut fair hair had made him the most photogenic cosmonaut since Gagarin.
He was reasonably photogenic, knew how to discreetly use makeup, and for years had practiced setting his jaw just so in front of his bedroom mirror.
If one of them happens to be easy on the eyes, he gets hired by the photogenic industry.
I had better things to do with my life than be photogenic for the police department.
Still in his car, he saw Eve Ranie alighting from a coachwillowy, ash-blonde, photogenic Eve.
She gave me a photogenic little smile and pulled her captive after her down the steps.
She wanted to get the film to Max before the parade actually arrived at the docks, for the arrival and the Blessing itself were the most photogenic parts of the ceremony.
Miss Amity appeared to be a sparky, photogenic woman in her early fifties, well-preserved, compact, her hair a range of different colours from copper to blonde.
He wore a wedding band and on his desk sat photographs of an equally young-looking wife and a pair of photogenic toddlers.
Channing, as a photogenic astronaut type, had been ever-aware of How She Looked.
Still in his car, he saw Eve Ranie alighting from a coach-willowy, ash-blonde, photogenic Eve.
Yasir Arafat would have been just another old man in a galabia spouting anti-Israeli rhetoric without the photogenic properties of the suicide bombers and their residue in Gaza and on the West Bank.
A photogenic first step was good, but a multiculturally photogenic first step was better.
Kitty filmed Moses picking his way around the puddles, squatting to talk to the children, lifting a marvellously photogenic little black cherub in his arms and wiping his snotty nose.
He was fifty-eight, tall, with a full head of distinguished-looking gray hair, a patrician's face, and a photogenic slender body that he kept in shape by a half-hour daily workout on a stationary bicycle.