# graphic

Pronunciation: US say "GRAF-ik" /ˈɡɹæfɪk/; UK

## Adjective

1. Describing or depicting something, especially sex or violence, in vivid and explicit detail.
   - Simple: Showing or describing something, often sex or violence, in a very clear and direct way.
   - _The documentary included graphic footage of the battle's aftermath._
   - _He spared no detail in his graphic description of the surgery._
3. Consisting of or relating to drawings, pictures, and other pictorial art.
   - Simple: Made with drawing or pictures, not words.
   - _The museum's collection focuses on graphic works from the Renaissance._
   - _Her graphic talents made her a sought-after illustrator for children's books._
5. Having a texture resembling writing, typically formed by exsolution, devitrification, and immiscibility in igneous rocks.
   - Simple: Having a rocky pattern that looks like rows of written letters.
   - _The specimen showed a clear graphic texture across its polished surface._
   - _Graphic granite displays intergrowths of quartz and feldspar that resemble runic script._

## Noun

2. A computer-generated image displayed on a screen as part of a game, film, or similar production.
   - Simple: A picture made by a computer that appears on a screen in a game or movie.
   - _The studio rebuilt every graphic to match the higher screen resolution._
   - _Players praised the game's detailed graphics and smooth animation._
4. A drawing, picture, or other visual illustration.
   - Simple: A drawing or picture, often a simple one.
   - _The designer added a bold graphic to the magazine's cover._
   - _The textbook's graphics made the complicated process easy to follow._
6. A moth belonging to the subfamily Melipotini.
   - Simple: A kind of moth that belongs to a small group of related moths.
   - _The entomologist netted a graphic feeding on the night-blooming flowers._
   - _Several graphics were drawn to the trap's ultraviolet lamp after dusk._

## Origin

From Latin graphicus ("belonging to painting or drawing"), from Ancient Greek graphikós (relating to painting, drawing, or writing, and to a lively style), from graphḗ ("drawing, painting, writing"), from gráphō ("scratch, carve"), which is cognate with English carve.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/graphic (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).