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語源

From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹæfɪk/
• 韻: -æfɪk

形容詞

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

1. Drawn, pictorial.

   The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.

2. Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.

   We are not publishing these images because of the graphic nature of the content.

   In the bodycam footage he is heard using graphic language to berate her.

3. (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

   graphic granite

派生語

関連する語

名詞

graphic (plural graphics)

1. A drawing or picture.
2. (mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

   I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.

3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

派生語

Further reading

• “graphic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “graphic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “graphic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.