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Definition: Photogenic |
PhotogenicAdjective1. Looking attractive in photographs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Photogenic |
| English words defined with "photogenic": Dynactinometer. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | How to keep some not-so photogenic characters out of the picture?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Random 4" by A D Commentary: "Photogenic household items/appliances." | "Grave Stone" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Taken just after a hail storm had passed and this fantastic sunny afternoon came out, grave stone in the country town was photogenic...i thought." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It also may be called photic epilepsy or photogenic epilepsy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Photogenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.92% of the time. "Photogenic" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.92% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "photogenic": photogenic epilepsy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "photogenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lumineshent, fotozhenik, dritëlëshues (fluorescent). (various references) | |
Arabic | جذاب في الصورة, رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фотогеничен (films well). (various references) | |
Czech | fotogenický. (various references) | |
Farsi | خوش عکس , ایجادشده دراثرنوروروشناءی , روشنی زا. (various references) | |
Finnish | valokuvauksellinen (photographic). (various references) | |
French | photogénique. (various references) | |
German | photogen (photogenous). (various references) | |
Greek | φωτογενήσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jól fényképezhetõ, fényképen jól mutató. (various references) | |
Italian | fotogenico. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フェルミ粒子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フォトジェニック . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otogenicphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fotogênico. (various references) | |
Romanian | fotogenic, fotogen. (various references) | |
Russian | фосфоресцирующий (noctilucous, phosphorescent), фотогеничный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fotogeničan. (various references) | |
Spanish | fotogénico. (various references) | |
Swedish | fotogenisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | iyi resim veren, fotojenik, ışık yayan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фосфоруючий (phosphorescent, phosphoric), фотогенічний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tạo ánh sáng, sinh ánh sáng ăn ảnh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "photogenic": photogenically. (additional references) | |
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"Photogenic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chlorogenic, photopenic, protogenic, protogyny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "photogenic" (pronounced fō'tuje"nik) |
| 6 | -u j e" n i k | hallucinogenic, orogenic, pathogenic, telegenic. |
| 5 | -j e" n i k | carcinogenic, eugenic, psychogenic, transgenic. |
| 4 | -e" n i k | calisthenic, schizophrenic, splenic. |
| 3 | -n i k | allophonic, arsenic, avionic, beatnik, botanic, bubonic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, galvanic, ganglionic, germanic, gnomonic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, inorganic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, manic, masonic, mechanic, messianic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, neotenic, nucleonic, oceanic, organic, ovonic, panic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, satanic, scenic, sonic, Sputnik, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telephonic, Titanic, tonic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, ultrasonic, volcanic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: theogonic. | |
-2 letters: coopting, geoponic, phonetic, photoing, photonic, pooching. | |
-3 letters: chopine, coontie, cooping, echoing, entopic, etching, hencoop, hooping, hooting, nepotic, peching, phocine, poohing, potiche. | |
-4 letters: chigoe, chiton, chopin, cogent, cogito, coigne, cooing, cootie, coping, coting, eching, epigon, ethion, ethnic, gentoo, gonoph, goonie, gothic, hoeing, hogtie, hoping, incept, noetic, notice, ochone, octopi, oohing, ophite, opting, option. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-t" | |
+3 letters: anthropogenic, morphogenetic, nonpathogenic, photoreducing. | |
+4 letters: cytopathogenic, gerontomorphic, photogenically. | |
+5 letters: neuropathologic, phytopathogenic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Images: Digital Art 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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