graphic

Meaning

Adj

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

Noun

1. A drawing or picture.
2. (plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Synonyms

graphical

vivid

pictorial

picturesque

descriptive

figurative

obvious

lifelike

picture

image

computer graphic

clear

image-bearing

painting

🖼️

drawing

graphically

diagram

in writing

true to life

visual

realistic

figure

scenic

schematic

scheme

scriptural

visible

life-like

pictorial information

secnic

graphic solution

graphic method

illustrated diagram

graphic treatment

articulate

graphic calculate

chart

💹

cleric

clerical

colorful

colourful

concise

diagrammatic

eidetic

graph

graphics

icon

illustrate

illustrated

illustrative

Translations

graphique

gráfico

gráfico

grafico

Grafik

graphisch

grafisch

grafica

gràfic

anschaulich

aanschouwelijk

Graphik

vivido

grafisch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɹæfɪk/

Etymology

Cognate with English: carve

In summary

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).