graphic

English

Alternative forms

• graphick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikos, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphē, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æfɪk

Adjective

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

1. drawn, pictorial
2. vivid, descriptive
3. grotesque or otherwise repulsively gory
4. pornographic

Related terms

• graphical

Derived terms

• graphics card

Translations

drawn, pictorial

Arabic: غرافيك (ar) (ğrafik) m. Egyptian Arabic: جرافيك (grafek) m. Catalan: gràfic (ca) Dutch: grafisch (nl) Esperanto: grafika (eo) Finnish: graafinen (fi), kuvallinen (fi)

French: graphique (fr) German: grafisch/graphisch (de) Ido: grafika (io) Norwegian: grafisk (no) Polish: graficzny m. Spanish: gráfico (es)

vivid, descriptive

Catalan: gràfic (ca) Finnish: kursailematon (fi)

German: graphisch (de), grafisch (de) Spanish: gráfico (es)

Noun

graphic (plural graphics)

1. A drawing or picture.
2. (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.

Related terms

• graphic art
• graph
• graphical
• graphician
• lithographic
• photographic
• pornographic
• reprographic

Translations

a drawing or picture

Catalan: gràfic (ca) m. Esperanto: grafiko (eo) Finnish: kuva (fi)

German: Graphik (de) f. Ido: grafiko (io)

(in the plural) computer generated images as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

Catalan: gràfics (ca) m. pl. Finnish: grafiikka (fi)

German: Graphik f.

External links

• graphic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• graphic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• graphic at OneLook Dictionary Search