graphic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail

   graphic sexual scenes

2. 2
   adj

   written or drawn or engraved

   graphic symbols

3. 3
   adj

   relating to or presented by a graph

   a graphic presentation of the data

4. 4
   adj

   of or relating to the graphic arts

   These etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings are examples of their graphic work.

5. 5
   adj

   Drawn, pictorial.

   The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.

6. 6
   adj

   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.

7. 7
   adj

   Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

   graphic granite

8. 8
   noun

   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.

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).