Word · CEFR B1 · Frequency #6920
Fully loadedgraphic
图画的；绘画的；印刷的
relating to visual art, especially drawing, painting, lettering, or printing
常用于 graphic design（平面设计）
- 1.
Drawn, pictorial.
绘制的,图画的
- 2.
Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
明确、生动、描述性,通常与性或暴力的描绘有关
- 3.
Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts.
与图形艺术相关或让人联想到图形艺术的
- 4.
Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
具有类似书写的纹理,通常由火成岩中的分离、去玻璃化和不混溶过程产生
生动的；形象的（尤指描述令人不快的事物）；计算机图形的；绘制的,图画的；明确、生动、描述性,通常与性或暴力的描绘有关；与图形艺术相关或让人联想到图形艺术的
In use
The witness gave a graphic description of the accident.
She works as a graphic designer for a publishing company.
The report contained graphic photos of the war zone.
graphic + noun (graphic arts)
She studied graphic design at university.
她在大学学习平面设计。
graphic + noun (vivid description)
graphic 在此指描述细节令人不快。
The movie contains graphic violence.
这部电影含有生动的暴力场面。
in graphic detail
固定搭配，意为‘详尽地、生动地’。
He described the accident in graphic detail.
Connections
Collocations
- graphic design
- 平面设计
- She studied graphic design at university.她在大学学习平面设计。
- graphic novel
- 图像小说
- Maus is a famous graphic novel about the Holocaust.《鼠族》是一部关于大屠杀的著名图像小说。
- graphic detail
- 生动的细节
- The report described the accident in graphic detail.报告生动地描述了事故的细节。
- graphic illustration
- 图解
- The book includes many graphic illustrations of the process.这本书包含许多该过程的图解。
- graphic representation
- 图形表示
- The data is presented in a graphic representation.数据以图形表示呈现。
- graphic description
Learner notes
Memory Tip
graphic=graph(图表)+ic(形容词后缀)，图表把数据变成生动的图像，记'图形的、生动的'。
Context & Register
通常作定语，多用于图形艺术、图表、生动描写（尤其令人不快内容）及计算机图形等领域；语域中性偏正式，在影视分级中常指'露骨'。
Grammar Note
常作定语，如graphic design平面设计
Pronunciation & Spelling
Words that rhyme with 'graphic' include those ending in '-graphic' with stress on 'graph': photographic, telegraphic, calligraphic. Words like specific, terrific, and scientific share the '-ic' ending but have different stress patterns and vowel sounds, so they do not rhyme.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.