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graphic.

Drawn, pictorial.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈɡɹæfɪk/
  1. Drawn, pictorial.

    The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.
  2. 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.
  3. Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts.

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

    graphic granite
Where this word comes from

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).

noun/ˈɡɹæfɪk/
  1. A drawing or picture.

  2. A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

    plural
    I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.
  3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Where this word comes from

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).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.