Graphic

//ˈɡɹæfɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Drawn, pictorial.
  2. 2
    Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
  3. 3
    Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

    "graphic granite"

Adjective
  1. 1
    describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail wordnet
  2. 2
    evoking lifelike images within the mind wordnet
  3. 3
    written or drawn or engraved wordnet
  4. 4
    relating to or presented by a graph wordnet
  5. 5
    of or relating to the graphic arts wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A drawing or picture.
  2. 2
    an image that is generated by a computer wordnet
  3. 3
    A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc. plural

    "I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing."

  4. 4
    A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

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).

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