different between interesting vs graphic

English

Etymology

From interest +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nt??st??/, /??nt??st??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nt???st??/, /??nt(?)??st??/, /??nt(?)??st??/, /??nt???st??/
• ,

Adjective

interesting (comparative more interesting, superlative most interesting)

1. (obsolete) Of concern; affecting, important.
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 48:

     He indeed had good reason to be offended; for though Dr. Swinfen's motive was good, he inconsiderately betrayed a matter deeply interesting and of great delicacy, which had been entrusted to him in conference […] .

2. Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
   • 2015-11-22, Stan Lee, "Marvel's Stan Lee: 'I'd never really thought of doing comics for a living.'", The Guardian:

     Comics were just another form of entertainment to me, but it got to be more and more interesting every day.

3. (euphemistic) Pregnant. [from 18th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     I found myself in a fair way of being a mother; and that I might be near my own relations, in such an interesting situation, I and my dear companion departed from H—n, not without great reluctance […] .

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

     Mrs Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an interesting state) rushed from the rear rank of ladies, and uttering a piercing scream threw herself upon the body.

   • 1928, WB Maxwell, We Forget Because We Must:

     I'm afraid I seem to make heavy weather of my interesting condition.

Synonyms

• absorbing

Antonyms

• uninteresting
• boring

Derived terms

• interesting condition
• interestingly
• interestingness

Translations

Verb

interesting

1. present participle of interest

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

Translations

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

Translations

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