graphic

• graphick (obsolete)

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæfɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æfɪk

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

1. Drawn, pictorial.
2. Explicit, 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

• graphical

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.

3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

• “graphic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “graphic”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “graphic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.