graphic

Meanings

Plural: graphics

Noun

an image that is generated by a computer
A drawing or picture.
A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Adjective Satellite

written or drawn or engraved
- "graphic symbols"
describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
- "graphic sexual scenes"
evoking lifelike images within the mind
- "graphic accounts of battle"

Adjective

of or relating to the graphic arts; - British Book News
- "the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"
relating to or presented by a graph
- "a graphic presentation of the data"

Adj

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

Origin / 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).

Synonyms

computer graphic, graphical, in writing, lifelike, pictorial, vivid

Scrabble Score: 15

graphic is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
graphic is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
graphic is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

graphic is a valid Words With Friends word