graphic

English

Alternative forms

• graphick (obsolete)

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæfɪk/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -æfɪk

Adjective

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

1. Drawn, pictorial.
2. Vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
3. (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

   graphic granite

Derived terms

• graphic novel
• graphics card

Related terms

• graphical

Translations

drawn, pictorial

• Arabic: غْرَافِيك‎ m (ḡrafik)

  Egyptian Arabic: جرافيك‎ m (grafek)

• Bulgarian: графичен (grafičen), изобразителен (bg) (izobrazitelen)
• Catalan: gràfic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖形的, 图形的 (túxíng de)

• Czech: výtvarný (cs)
• Danish: grafisk (da)
• Dutch: grafisch (nl)
• Esperanto: grafika
• Faroese: grafiskur
• Finnish: graafinen (fi), kuvallinen (fi)
• French: graphique (fr)

• Galician: gráfico m
• German: graphisch (de), grafisch (de)
• Icelandic: grafískur
• Ido: grafika (io)
• Italian: grafico (it), immagine (it) f
• Japanese: 描写的 (びょうしゃてき, byousha teki), 鮮明な (ja) (せんめいな, senmei na), 写実的 (しゃじつてき, shajitsu teki)
• Kazakh: графикалық (grafikalyq)
• Korean: 그림을 보는 듯한 (geurimeul boneun deuthan)
• Norwegian: grafisk (no)
• Polish: graficzny (pl) m
• Portuguese: gráfico (pt)
• Russian: графи́ческий (ru) (grafíčeskij), изобрази́тельный (ru) (izobrazítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: gráfico (es)
• Swedish: grafisk (sv)
• Vietnamese: đồ hoạ

vivid, descriptive

• Bulgarian: нагледен (bg) (nagleden)
• Catalan: gràfic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生動的, 生动的 (shēngdòng de), 寫實的, 写实的 (xiěshí de), 逼真的 (bīzhēn de)

• Czech: barvitý
• Finnish: kursailematon (fi)
• French: cru (fr), explicite (fr), imagé (fr) m
• Galician: gráfico m
• German: drastisch (de)
• Hungarian: szemléletes (hu)

• Italian: crudo (it) m
• Japanese: 生々しい (ja) (なまなましい, namanamashii), 露骨な (ろこつな, rokotsu na), 詳細な (しょうさい, shōsai na)
• Kazakh: көрнекі (körnekı)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: billedlig

• Polish: obrazowy (pl)
• Portuguese: gráfico (pt)
• Russian: нагля́дный (ru) (nagljádnyj), графи́ческий (ru) (grafíčeskij)
• Spanish: gráfico (es), crudo (es)
• Vietnamese: sinh động (vi), tả thực (vi)

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

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

 

Translations

a drawing or picture

• Catalan: gràfic (ca) m
• Esperanto: grafiko
• Finnish: kuva (fi)
• French: graphique (fr) m
• German: Graphik (de) f

• Ido: grafiko (io)
• Irish: grafaic f
• Portuguese: ilustração (pt) f
• Russian: рису́нок (ru) m (risúnok), чертёж (ru) m (čertjóž), карти́нка (ru) f (kartínka)

(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
• Danish: grafik c
• Finnish: grafiikka (fi)
• German: Graphik (de) f
• Irish: grafaic f
• Italian: grafica (it) f sg

• Polish: grafika (pl) f
• Portuguese: gráficos (pt) m pl
• Romanian: grafică (ro) f
• Russian: гра́фика (ru) f (gráfika)
• Spanish: gráficos (es) m pl

Further reading

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