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Graphic   /grˈæfɪk/   Listen
Graphic

adjective
1.
Written or drawn or engraved.  Synonyms: graphical, in writing.
2.
Describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail.
3.
Of or relating to the graphic arts.
4.
Relating to or presented by a graph.  Synonym: graphical.
5.
Evoking lifelike images within the mind.  Synonyms: lifelike, pictorial, vivid.  "Graphic accounts of battle" , "A lifelike portrait" , "A vivid description"
noun
1.
An image that is generated by a computer.  Synonym: computer graphic.



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"Graphic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mrs. Boyd had been quite graphic about her calling for the baby, her care of it from midnight to the next morning and settling her mind to what the woman had said; her resolve to keep the child when she heard the other mother had been killed. ...
— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... with religious ideas as the Egyptians doubtless carried their habits of worship beyond the temple gates. But unfortunately we have no graphic or connected view of their private devotions. At the present day a few natives will scrupulously follow the daily ritual of Islam; many keep up some convenient portion, such as the religious aspect of an evening bath after the day's work; but most of the peasantry have ...
— The Religion of Ancient Egypt • W. M. Flinders Petrie

... d'Abrantes, who was present at this scene, gives a faithful, eloquent, and graphic ...
— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach

... still lies heavy upon the land, France looks ahead to reconstruction. Last summer Paris flocked to a graphic exhibition of how to rebuild a destroyed city. It was called La Cite Reconstitue, and was held in the Tuileries Garden. Here you could see the modern way of making a Phoenix rise quickly out of the ashes. There were model schoolhouses, churches, factories, and cottages, all with standardised ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson

... western battle front took place in this little section of about four miles of trenches, lying between Rheimes and Verdun. For a whole month from Feb. 15, the attacks were kept up by the French forces almost continuously, and the sketch gives the graphic result of changes for three weeks of that time. Ostensibly the purpose of the French was to pierce the German line and cut the railway a few miles to the rear. Incidentally, the French aimed to keep their opponents busy, and thus ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various


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