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graphic

adj
/ˈɡɹæfɪk/

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).

  1. derived from γραφικός
  2. derived from graphicus

Definitions

  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. Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification…

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

    • graphic granite
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A drawing or picture.

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

      • I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.

    3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at graphic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at graphic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at graphic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA