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graphic

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæfɪk/

The English word “graphic” has 7 meanings listed here.

adjective

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

noun

  1. A drawing or picture.
  2. 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.

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).

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