graphic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɹæfɪk/

Definition of graphic

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Drawn, pictorial.
    “The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.”
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adj

  1. Drawn, pictorial.
    “The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.”
  2. Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
    “We are not publishing these images because of the graphic nature of the content.”
    “In the bodycam footage he is heard using graphic language to berate her.”
  3. Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
    “graphic granite”

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.
    “I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.”
  3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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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