English Explanatory Dictionary

graphic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Drawn, pictorial.
  2. Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
  3. Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
noun
  1. A drawing or picture.
  2. A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
  3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Pronunciation

/ˈɡɹæfɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-graphic.wav

Word forms

graphic more graphic most graphic graphick graphics

Etymology

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).

Related words

-graphic

Derived words

audiographic cographic electrographic epileptographic graph graphic abbreviation graphicacy graphical graphically graphic artist graphicate graphic design graphic designer graphic flutterer graphicly graphicness graphic novel graphic novelist graphic spiny lizard graphic tee melographic nongraphic perigraphic semigraphic supergraphic ungraphic visuographic infographic digitally originated graphic digital on-screen graphic graphician user-defined graphic
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