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/ Rhymes: -æfɪk === Adjective === graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic) Drawn, pictorial. Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence. (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks. ==== Related terms ==== graphical ==== Translations ==== === Noun === graphic (plural graphics) A drawing or picture. (mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini. ==== Translations ==== === Derived terms === === Further reading === “graphic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “graphic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “graphic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.