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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Attractive as a subject for photography.
  2. adj. Biology Producing or emitting light; phosphorescent: photogenic bacteria.
  3. adj. Caused or produced by light: photogenic seizures.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to photogeny.
  2. In biology, producing light without sensible heat, as an animal or vegetable organism; giving rise to luminosity or phosphorescence; photogenous.
  3. A reproduction of the configuration of any flat translucent object, as a leaf, or the wing of an insect, or a drawing upon translucent paper or tracing-cloth, made by confining it under glass in contact with a sensitive film, exposing to the action of light, and fixing or developing the image resulting in the film. A variety of photogenic processes arc now in use for copying mechanical drawings. See blue-printing.
  4. n. In general, light-producing; luminous.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. looking attractive in photographs

Etymologies

  1. photo- + -genic (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “While we are renewing last year's faded overall tans, the well-soaked British Columbia landscape will be progressively repainted in photogenic velvet green; emerald variations brushed onto sky-reaching cedars, ground-dwelling ferns and stubborn mosses by the tempests of winter wind and unrelenting rain.”

    Nogales, here we come

  • “Rick: People are sometimes called photogenic and that doesn't always mean that they're good looking and attractive in the conventional sense.”

    Modern Guitars Magazine

  • “Other than her hairstyle she is the same Marina—loud voice, big eyes my mother calls photogenic, and a pudgy nose that my sister says typecasts her into character roles.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

  • “Just months before, I had absorbed the news that Sarah Palin also had to face-my baby, the one the nurse had called photogenic as she handed us another ultra-sound photo, the one whose growth I had read about each night as its heart, legs, sex, ears and fingernails developed, had an extra chromosome.”

    P. Gabrielle Foreman: Palin's Extra Chromosome (Choice) -- And Mine

  • “That could be called photogenic as far as I'm concerned.”

    Video: Annie Leibovitz and Miley Cyrus: Vanity Fair

  • “What some are calling photogenic proof of the mythical beast.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008

  • “There are Foursquare badges for checking in to a venue with photo booths ( "photogenic"), being a frequent gym user ( "gym rat"), and eating at 20 different pizza places ( "pizzaiolo").”

    The Huffington Post: James Sims: Broadway Marketing Ready to Play Foursquare

  • “SB: Bettie went beyond the usual "photogenic" description.”

    Susie Bright: Interview: The Bettie Page Story

  • “It's entirely possible to have a firearm that's a delight to shoot and still be a "photogenic" piece of equipment.”

    Shallow Shooters

  • “Any person definitely has to be younger, has to be vigorous, has to be a good campaigner, kind of photogenic, telegenic and probably has to be somebody McCain is really comfortable with.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008

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  1. attractive

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  1. revelatory
  2. static-laden
  3. x-rayed
  4. cushiony
  1. luciferous
  2. anti-reflective
  3. well-scrubbed
  4. allochthonous
  1. unfearing
  2. hoarfrost
  3. Weill
  4. suspenseful
  1. uvb
  2. flippin'
  3. things
  4. anti-democratic
  1. egalitarian
  2. conducive
  3. action-packed
  4. demon-damned
  1. emerald-green
  2. patent-medicine

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Denike
  2. Hellenic
  3. anthropogenic
  1. authentic
  2. bennick
  3. calisthenic
  1. carcinogenic
  2. eugenic
  3. hallucinogenic
  1. orogenic
  2. pathogenic
  3. psychogenic
  1. schizophrenic
  2. splenic
  3. telegenic
  1. transgenic

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  1. photogenous
  1. dynactinometer
  1. photogenetic
  1. vacuolide
  1. -genic
  1. photogenic
  1. pyrophorine

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  • Prolagus Yes!! See also naïve :D Dec 27, 2008

  • djsalinger I'll settle down with some old story
    about a boy who's just like me,
    thought there was love in everything
    and everyone you're so naive.
    They always reach a sorry ending,
    They always get it in the end... Dec 27, 2008

  • Prolagus Think of it this way
    You could either be successful or be us
    With our winning smiles, and us
    With our catchy tunes or worse
    Now we're photogenic
    You know, we don't stand a chance.

    (Get me away, I'm dying, by Belle and Sebastian) Dec 27, 2008

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