Graphic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æfɪk

Alternative forms

• graphick obsolete

Origin

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

Full definition of graphic

Adjective

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

Related terms

• graphical

Derived terms

• graphics card

Noun

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

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