graphic
See also: -graphic
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- graphick (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)
- Drawn, pictorial.
- Vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
- (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
- graphic granite
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drawn, pictorial
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vivid, descriptive
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Noun edit
graphic (plural graphics)
- A drawing or picture.
- (mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
- I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.
- A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.
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Translations edit
a drawing or picture
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(in the plural) computer generated images as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
Further reading edit
- “graphic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “graphic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “graphic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.