graphic
/ˈɡɹæfɪk/
graphic adjective: drawn, pictorial.
Adjective
graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)
- Drawn, pictorial.
- The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.
- 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.
- Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts.
- That practice started on a 2018 visit to Ethiopia, where he encountered Jimma thrones, hewn from a single piece of wood with graphic cutouts.2026 May, Hannah Martin, “Grab a Chair”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 24
- Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
- graphic granite
Noun
graphic (plural graphics)
graphic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
graphic in Hindi
- ग्राफिक, ग्राफ़िक, ग्राफ़ीक
graphic in Tamil
- வரைகலை, வரைப்பட விளக்கம், கருத்துக்களைப் படங்களாகவும், வரையுருவங்களாகவும் சித்தரித்தல்
graphic in Marathi
- ग्राफिक
graphic in Urdu
- graphic
- اشکال سے متعلق aśkāl se muta'alliq
More languagesFewer languages
- graphic in Bengali
- গ্রাফিক, স্পষ্ট, রৈখিক, লৈখিক
- graphic in Telugu
- గ్రాఫిక్
- graphic in Malayalam
- ലേഖാചിത്രരൂപമായ, ചിത്രരൂപത്തിലുള്ള, രേഖാചിത്രരൂപത്തിലുള്ള, ആലേഖ്യവിഷയകമായ
- graphic in Kannada
- ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕಟ್ಟುವಂತಹ, ಸುಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾದ, ಸ್ಫುಟವಾದ, ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆಕಟ್ಟುವ
- graphic in Punjabi
- ਗ੍ਰਾਫਿਕ, ਗਰਾਫਿਕ
- graphic in Gujarati
- ગ્રાફિક, ગ્રાફીક
- graphic in Odia
- ଗ୍ରାଫିକ୍
- graphic in Nepali
- ग्राफिक, ग्राफ़िक
- graphic in Arabic
- غْرَافِيك ḡrafik
- graphic in Vietnamese
- đồ hoạ, sinh động, tả thực
Examples of graphic in a sentence
- This game is really fun, but the graphics aren't very good.
- I tracked down my program’s memory leak to a function that didn’t release graphics resources properly.
- The graphics are really choppy; I'm only getting 12 frames per second.
Forms of graphic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more graphic |
| superlative | most graphic |
| alternative form | graphick |
| Noun | |
| plural | graphics |
Origin of graphic
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).
Words formed from graphic
- audiographic
- cographic
- electrographic
- epileptographic
- graph
- graphic abbreviation
- graphicacy
- graphical
- graphically
- graphic artist
- graphicate
- graphic design
- graphic designer
- graphic flutterer
- graphicly
- graphicness
- graphic novel
- graphic novelist
- graphic spiny lizard
- graphic tee
- melographic
- nongraphic
- perigraphic
- semigraphic
- supergraphic
- ungraphic
- visuographic
- infographic
- digitally originated graphic
- digital on-screen graphic
- graphician
- user-defined graphic
Phrases with graphic
Words that rhyme with graphic
- traffic
- sapphic
- orthographic
- photographic
- seraphic
- acrographic
- alveographic
- biogeographic
- cartographic
- dendrographic
- maffick
- pornographic
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Questions about graphic
- What does graphic mean?
- Graphic means drawn, pictorial.
- What is graphic in Hindi?
- Graphic in Hindi is ग्राफिक, ग्राफ़िक, ग्राफ़ीक. See Graphic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is graphic?
- Graphic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce graphic?
- Graphic is pronounced /ˈɡɹæfɪk/.
Words near graphic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: graphic (page history and authors); graphic (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); graphic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); graphic (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); اشکال سے متعلق (Urdu) (page history and authors); graphic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); graphic (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); graphic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); graphic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); graphic (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); graphic (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); graphic (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); graphic (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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