- [only before noun] connected with drawings and design, especially in the production of books, magazines, websites, etc.
- graphic design
- a graphic designer
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- (of descriptions, etc.) very clear and full of details, especially about something unpleasant synonym vivid
- a graphic account/description of a battle
- He kept telling us about his operation, in the most graphic detail.
- This is a very graphic account of life in Victorian England.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek graphikos, from graphē ‘writing, drawing’.
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