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graphic

//ˈɡɹæfɪk//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for graphic

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Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
more graphic
Superlative
most graphic

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
graphics

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Drawn, pictorial.

    • The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.
  2. 2.Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.

    • In the bodycam footage he is heard using graphic language to berate her.
    • We are not publishing these images because of the graphic nature of the content.
  3. 3.Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

  4. 4.Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts.

    • That practice started on a 2018 visit to Ethiopia, where he encountered Jimma thrones, hewn from a single piece of wood with graphic cutouts.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A drawing or picture.

  2. 2.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.
  3. 3.A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4569

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

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Word family

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.”)

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