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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
photogenic
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.
▪ Disease and death in old movies were relatively photogenic.
▪ I have also been told I am photogenic and I love anything to do with hair and make-up.
▪ It will certainly prove to be a photogenic spot once things get rolling.
▪ Nothing came of it as unfortunately she was not photogenic.
▪ The building, photogenic but antiquated, stood among clusters of oak and pine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Photogenic

Photogenic \Pho`to*gen"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
photogenic

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."

Wiktionary
photogenic

a. 1 Generated or caused by light. 2 Producing or emitting light, luminescent. 3 look good when photographed.

WordNet
photogenic

adj. looking attractive in photographs

Wikipedia
Photogenic

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.

Photogenic (disambiguation)

Photogenic or similar terms can refer to:

  • Photogenic, physical attractiveness in photographs
  • Miss Photogenic, a special award in the Miss USA beauty contest
  • Photogenics, a graphics editing software package

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.