Definitions for graphic

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graphic graph·ic

Spelling: [graf-ik]

IPA: /ˈgræf ɪk/

Graphic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in graphic (acghipr).

Definitions for graphic

noun

1. a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
2. a computer-generated image.

adjective

1. giving a clear and effective picture; vivid:
2. pertaining to the use of diagrams, graphs, mathematical curves, or the like; diagrammatic.
3. of, relating to, or expressed by writing:
4. written, inscribed, or drawn.
5. depicted in a realistic or vivid manner:
6. containing graphic descriptions:
7. Geology. (of a rock) having a texture formed by the intergrowth of certain minerals so as to resemble written characters.
8. Mathematics. pertaining to the determination of values, solution of problems, etc., by direct measurement on diagrams instead of by ordinary calculations.
9. of or relating to the graphic arts.

Origin of graphic

1630-40; Latin graphicus of painting or drawing Greek graphikós able to draw or paint, equivalent to gráph(ein) to draw, write + -ikos -ic; cognate with Examples for graphic

Detainees were described, in graphic detail, being rectally fed against their will.

Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.

Surely all this graphic talk of gastrointestinal distress is making you queasy.

It was a first night, and he was taking sketches for The graphic.

For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.

His work also provides a graphic account of injured females who were assaulted by marauding “gangs” of Adélie males.

It will enable me to judge of your powers of graphic description.

After scoring over my calmness in this graphic way he nodded wisely.

And I discovered in his speeches that this man of books could be graphic and picturesque.

This, rather than the imaginative power, it was that made his descriptions so graphic.