GRAPHIC

graphic

(adjective) describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail; “graphic sexual scenes”

graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid

(adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind; “pictorial poetry and prose”; “graphic accounts of battle”; “a lifelike portrait”; “a vivid description”

graphic, graphical, in writing

(adjective) written or drawn or engraved; “graphic symbols”

graphic, graphical

(adjective) relating to or presented by a graph; “a graphic presentation of the data”

graphic

(adjective) of or relating to the graphic arts; “the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work”- British Book News

graphic, computer graphic

(noun) an image that is generated by a computer

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

Drawn, pictorial.

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.

Noun

graphic (plural graphics)

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.

Source: Wiktionary

Graph"ic, Graph"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. graphicus, Gr. graphique. See Graft.]

1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.

2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing.

3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters. Sir T. Browne.

4. Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.

5. Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a gruphic writer. Graphic algebra, a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines.

– Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc., and also from sculpture.

– Graphic formula. (Chem.) See under Formula.

– Graphic granite. See under Granite.

– Graphic method, the method of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves, the abscissas of which represent the hours of the day, and the ordinates the corresponding degrees of temperature.

– Graphical statics (Math.), a branch of statics, in which the magnitude, direction, and position of forces are represented by straight lines -- Graphic tellurium. See Sylvanite.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition