graphic vs graphical what difference

what is difference between graphic and graphical

English

Alternative forms

• graphick (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæfɪk/
• Rhymes: -æfɪk

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.

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.

Related terms

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

English

Etymology

graphic +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæfɪkəl/

Adjective

graphical (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or shown on a graph.
2. (computing) Of, related to, or using graphics.
3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters.

Derived terms

• graphical user interface

Translations

See also

• graphic

Anagrams

• algraphic

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