graphic

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[edit] Etymology

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

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• Rhymes: -æfɪk

[edit] Adjective

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

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

[edit] Related terms

• graphical

[edit] Derived terms

• graphic card

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Related terms

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

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[edit] 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