- describing or depicting in vivid and realistic detail: a rather graphic war movie
- described or depicted in vivid and realistic detail: graphic details of the battle
- of the graphic arts
- of handwriting; used or expressed in handwriting
- written, inscribed, or recorded in letters of the alphabet, meaningful symbols, etc.
- having markings suggestive of written or printed characters: graphic granite
- of graphs or diagrams
- shown by graphs or diagrams
Also graph′i·cal
Origin of graphic
Classical Latin graphicus from Classical Greek graphikos, capable of painting or drawing, of writing from graph?, a drawing, writing from graphein, to write, origin, originally , scratch, incise from Indo-European base an unverified form gerebh- from source carve, crab an illustration, graph, map, caption, etc. accompanying a newspaper or magazine article, appearing on a computer or TV screen, etc.: often used in pl.
