graphic
//ˈɡɹæfɪk//
Forms
- Comparative
- more graphic
- Superlative
- most graphic
- Plural
- graphics
Definitions
1.Drawn, pictorial.
- The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.
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.Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
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.
1.A drawing or picture.
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.A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4569
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.”)