different between graphic vs vigorous

English

Alternative forms

• graphick (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æf?k/
• Rhymes: -æf?k

Adjective

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

1. Drawn, pictorial.
2. Vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
3. (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

   graphic granite

Derived terms

• graphics card

Related terms

• graphical

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Noun

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.

Related terms

• graphic art
• graph
• graphical
• graphician
• lithographic
• photographic
• pornographic
• reprographic

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Further reading

• graphic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• graphic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• graphic at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman vigrus, from Old French vigoros (French vigoureux), from Medieval Latin vigorosus, from Latin vigor. Doublet of vigoroso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?????s/
• Rhymes: -?????s

Adjective

vigorous (comparative more vigorous, superlative most vigorous)

1. Physically strong and active.
   • 1976, Joni Mitchell, "Song for Sharon":

     Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink

     Circling in singles and in pairs

     In this vigorous anonymity

2. Mentally strong and active.
3. Rapid of growth.

   a vigorous shrub

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