graphic

noun

A drawing or picture.

(mostly in plural) 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

Drawn, pictorial.

Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.

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

Roots

graphograph- · Greek · write, draw

Synonyms for graphic

pictorialadj vividadj lifelikeadj illustrativeadj diagrammaticadj pictographicadj

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The word graphic breaks down into one root of Greek origin: the root graph-, from Greek grapho (“write, draw”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.