photographic

From photo- +‎ -graphic or photograph +‎ -ic.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌfoʊtəˈɡɹæfɪk/, [ˌfoʊɾəˈɡɹæfɪk]

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• Rhymes: -æfɪk

photographic (comparative more photographic, superlative most photographic)

1. Pertaining to photographs or photography.

   This shop stocks all the latest photographic equipment.

   • 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:

     There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.

2. (figurative) Synonym of accurate

   What each evangelist preserved is not a photographic reproduction of the words and deeds of Jesus, but an interpretative portrait delineated in accord with the special needs of the early church.

   — Bruce Metzger

• phagotrophic