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   graphic

   /ˈɡrafɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to visual art, especially involving drawing, engraving, or lettering: "his mature graphic work" Similar visualsymbolicpictorialdepictiveillustrativediagrammaticdrawnwrittenin writingdelineative
   • ▪ relating to or denoting a visual image: "graphic information such as charts and diagrams"
   • 2. giving clear and vividly explicit details: "a graphic account of the riots" Similar vividexplicitexpressivedetaileduninhibitedstrikingforcefulpowerfulpunchylivelycolourfulhighly colouredrichluridshockingstartlingcogentclearlucidrealisticdescriptiveillustrativepictorialwell definedwell delineatedwell drawnwell expressedphotographictellingeffectiveOpposite vaguesoftened
   • 3. of or in the form of a graph.
   • 4. of or denoting rocks having a surface texture resembling cuneiform writing.

   noun

   • 1. a graphical item displayed on a screen or stored as data.

   Word Origin mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek graphikos, from graphē ‘writing, drawing’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. graphicness noun

   Scrabble Points: 15

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   • R

     1

   • A

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   • P

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   • H

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   • I

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   • C

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