graphic
/græfik/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Vividly descriptive: Creating clear, detailed, and lifelike mental images, often through explicit or detailed description.
- Relating to visual art or design: Pertaining to the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, or other visual representation.
- Relating to diagrams or charts: Represented by or involving graphs, diagrams, or other non-textual visual formats.
Noun:
- A visual representation: An image, diagram, or illustration, especially one generated by a computer.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- The journalist provided a graphic account of the event, leaving little to the imagination.
- She is studying graphic design at the university.
- The data was presented in a clear, graphic format.
Noun:
- The website uses high-quality graphics to enhance user experience.
- The report was accompanied by several informative graphics.
Advanced Usage
- "In graphic detail": Describing something with explicit and often disturbing vividness.
- The documentary showed the aftermath of the disaster in graphic detail.
Variants and Related Words
- Graphically (adverb): In a vivid or visual manner.
- The scene was described graphically.
- Graphics (plural noun): The products of graphic arts or computer-generated images collectively.
- The video game is praised for its stunning graphics.
Synonyms
- Vivid: Producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.
- Pictorial: Relating to or consisting of pictures.
- Explicit: Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt (often for descriptions).
Related Phrases
- Graphic novel: A novel in comic-strip format.
- He enjoys reading graphic novels more than traditional books.
- Graphic designer: A professional who creates visual content.
- She works as a graphic designer for an advertising agency.
Adjective
- evoking lifelike images within the mind
- pictorial poetry and prose
- graphic accounts of battle
- a lifelike portrait
- a vivid description
- relating to or presented by a graph
- a graphic presentation of the data
- of or relating to the graphic arts
- the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work- British Book News
- describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
- graphic sexual scenes
- written or drawn or engraved
- graphic symbols
Noun
- an image that is generated by a computer