Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to written representation.
- adj. Of or relating to pictorial representation.
- adj. Of, relating to, or represented by or as if by a graph.
- adj. Described in vivid detail.
- adj. Clearly outlined or set forth.
- adj. Of or relating to the graphic arts.
- adj. Of or relating to graphics.
- adj. Geology Having crystals resembling printed characters.
- n. A work of graphic art.
- n. A pictorial device used for illustration, as in a lecture.
- n. A graphic display generated by a computer or an imaging device.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the art of writing; concerned with writing, or with words as written; chirographic; orthographic: as, graphic representation; a mere graphic variation.
- Written; inscribed; expressed by letters.
- Pertaining to the art of delineation, drawing, or picturing; concerned with the expression or conveyance of ideas by lines or strokes, as distinguished from alphabetic characters: as, the graphic arts.
- Exhibiting as in a picture; representing with accuracy; describing effectively or vividly; vivid.
- Working by drawings to scale instead of by arithmetical calculations.
- Concerned with position, not with measurement.
- In pathology, a mode of studying diseases of the heart and the great vessels by tracings of an instrument, as the sphygmograph.
- Concerned with or using graphs.
Wiktionary
- adj. drawn, pictorial
- adj. vivid, descriptive
- adj. grotesque or otherwise repulsively gory
- adj. pornographic
- n. A drawing or picture.
- n. mostly in plural A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing; of or pertaining to graphics.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the art of writing.
- adj. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
- adj. Having the faculty of clear, detailed, and impressive description.
- adj. Well delineated; clearly and vividly described; characterized by, clear, detailed, and impressive description; vivid; evoking lifelike images within the mind.
- adj. describing nudity or sexual activity in explicit detail.
- adj. relating to or presented by a graph{2}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an image that is generated by a computer
- adj. relating to or presented by a graph
- adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind
- adj. of or relating to the graphic arts
- adj. written or drawn or engraved
- adj. describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
Etymologies
- From Latin graphicus ("belonging to painting or drawing"), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikos, "belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively"), from γραφή (graphē, "drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc."), from γράφω (graphō). (Wiktionary)
- Latin graphicus, from Greek graphikos, from graphē, writing, from graphein, to write; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As I prepare for a new year of book reviews, both conceptually deep and in graphic novels, I am finishing off my backlog of trade paperback anthology (more frequently and inaccurately called graphic novels) reviews.”
“The legendary cartoonist Will Eisner popularized the term "graphic novel" with books like A Contract with God.”
The Huffington Post: Douglas Wolk: How Comics Became Literature for Adults
“Superhero movies rule the box office, and thanks to the term "graphic novel," hipsters...”
“How differently would a conversation go if you choose the word "graphic novel" in place of comic book?”
The Huffington Post: Dave Scheidt: It's Called a Comic Book, Not Graphic Novel
“The date is also flashed across the screen following the title graphic which read "Brotherly encounter between Fidel and Chávez.”
The Wall Street Journal: Venezuela Counters Chávez Rumors With Video
“With the advent of books like Watchmen , I think these people were given license by the term graphic novel .”
Wired: Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic
“There isnt any hard definition for the term graphic novel beyond it being a longer than normally found comic story.”
“At the moment, since the title graphic says “Whatever” and not “The Whatever,” I suspect “Whatever” is marginally more correct.”
“Read the story, then enlarge the title graphic to see what its about.”
“Latest: Rufus Wainwright, Older: Cabaret, Host: Clockwork Orange, Contact: Beatles guitars (same as the title graphic, only inversed and smaller), and Notes: John Lennon's hair.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘graphic’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Light Adjectives
lucid, bright, fluorescent, luminous, lustrous, vivid, radiant, shining, clear, brilliant, scintillant, unclouded and 10 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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paperkingdoms's Words
osculating, guitar, iris, fourier, integral, boisterous, tea, graphic, lemma, espresso, shiny, 'verse and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for graphic.
bilby I must admit to some discomfort as a reader when meaning 4 collides with 9/10, viz:
"Warning: Some images are graphic."
- The Egypt Protests, 28 Jan 2011. Jan 31, 2011