Definition of GRAPHIC

graphic

Plural: graphics

Noun

  • A visual image or design, often from art or computer.
  • an image that is generated by a computer
  • A drawing or picture.
  • A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
  • A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Adjective Satellite

  • written or drawn or engraved
    • "graphic symbols"
  • describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
    • "graphic sexual scenes"
  • evoking lifelike images within the mind
    • "graphic accounts of battle"

Adjective

  • of or relating to the graphic arts; - British Book News
    • "the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"
  • relating to or presented by a graph
    • "a graphic presentation of the data"

Adj

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

Examples

  • graphic granite
  • I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.
  • The impressive Words With Friends graphic of his board showed a perfect triple-word score.

Origin / 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).

Synonyms

computer graphic, graphical, in writing, lifelike, pictorial, vivid

Scrabble Score: 15

graphic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
graphic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
graphic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

graphic: valid Words With Friends Word