Graphic
['græfɪk]
Definition
(noun.) an image that is generated by a computer.
(adj.) describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail; 'graphic sexual scenes' .
(adj.) evoking lifelike images within the mind; 'pictorial poetry and prose'; 'graphic accounts of battle'; 'a lifelike portrait'; 'a vivid description' .
(adj.) written or drawn or engraved; 'graphic symbols' .
(adj.) relating to or presented by a graph; 'a graphic presentation of the data' .
(adj.) of or relating to the graphic arts; 'the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work'- British Book News .
Typed by Elinor--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Graphical
Edited by Clare
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Vivid, lively, picturesque, well drawn, well delineated.
Checker: Merle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Picturesque, illustrative, descriptive, pictorial, forcible, vivid, feeling,described, picturesquely
ANT:Unpicturesque, unillustrative, undescriptive
Edited by Lizzie
Examples
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He unfolded the rough chart, which I here reproduce, GRAPHIC and he laid it across Holmes's knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She had got nothing from him more graphic about the Lowick cottages than that they were not bad. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The accompanying view, Fig. 270, will give graphic illustration of the range of this gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I have a copy of it here: GRAPHIC Holmes rubbed his hands and chuckled with delight. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At breakfast-time, he interested Mr. Hale with vivid, graphic, rattling accounts of the wild life he had led in Mexico, South America, and elsewhere. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Here is a copy of the hieroglyphics: GRAPHIC Excellent! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Preston Johnston is very graphic and well told. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- GRAPHIC Exactly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Montaigne is not more free and flowing, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is scarcely more graphic; neither does Bossuet excel him in poetical power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the following year Dalton gave graphic representation to his idea of the atomic constitution of chemical elements and compounds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Checker: Neil