graphic

graphic
1. adjective
1)

a graphic representation of language

Syn:
visual, symbolic, pictorial, illustrative, diagrammatic; drawn, written
2)

a graphic account of the war

Syn:
vivid, explicit, expressive, detailed; uninhibited, powerful, colorful, rich, lurid, shocking; realistic, descriptive, illustrative; telling, effective
Ant:
vague
2. noun, Computing

this printer's good enough for graphics

Syn:
picture, illustration, image; diagram, graph, chart; (graphics) art, visual art
••
graphic, pictorial, picturesque, vivid
A photograph of a car accident on the front page of a newspaper might be described as graphic, while a photograph of a mountain village would be called picturesque. Both adjectives are used to describe things that have visual impact or that produce a strong, clear impression, but graphic means having the power to evoke a strikingly lifelike representation, whether it is in pictures or in words (the driving instructor gave them a graphic description of what happens in a 50-mph head-on collision). Vivid is a more general term suggesting something that is felt, seen, heard, or apprehended with a sense of intense reality (the vivid colors of the landscape; a vivid memory of the horrors of war). Something that is pictorial aims to present a vivid picture (a pictorial writing style), while picturesque usually applies to scenes, pictures, etc. that are visually striking because they are panoramic, quaint, or unusual (from a distance the village looked picturesque, but up close it was seen to be rundown).

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  • Graphic — Graphic(magazine) Pays Corée du sud Langue coréen, anglais Périodicité trimestriel Genre magazine culturel Date de fondation 1er janvier 2007 Édite …   Wikipédia en Français

  • graphic — vivid, 1570s (implied in graphically), from L. graphicus picturesque, from Gk. graphikos of or for writing, belonging to drawing, picturesque, from graphe writing, drawing, from graphein to write (see GRAPHY (Cf. graphy)). Meaning of or… …   Etymology dictionary

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