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  • adjective of or relating to television
  • adjective suitable for broadcasting on television
  • adjective telegenic

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Examples

  • Adrian's account of "the desolation of the human spirit" was not particularly "televisual".

    Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ 2011

  • Still, any book that uses the word "televisual" in its description has to be worth a little extra cash, no?

    The History of Science Fiction 2006

  • Still, any book that uses the word "televisual" in its description has to be worth a little extra cash, no?

    February 2006 2006

  • While it is always original and pushing every kind of televisual boundary, it isn't all as attention-seeking as Brass Eye.

    New Statesman Sophie Elmhirst 2010

  • The kind of televisual treats previously only glimpsed by daytime TV viewers loafing around at home.

    The Guardian World News Vicky Frost 2010

  • The kind of televisual treats previously only glimpsed by daytime TV viewers loafing around at home.

    The Guardian World News Vicky Frost 2010

  • These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect. family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2008

  • These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect. family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself.

    National Coalition for History 2008

  • The problem with these million pound shows, though, is that money is not televisual.

    Television's mundane millionaires | Joe Moran 2011

  • In Britain in the seventies, we only had three television channels, so inevitably we all watched the same programs, and the big televisual events, such as the shooting of JR, or the Royal Wedding, were really big events.

    A Discussion with Carole Cadwalladr 2010

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