adjective

graphic

GRAF-ik/ˈɡræfɪk/

Vividly detailed, especially about violence or sex.

The graphic picture shows breaking waves and shredded sails on the ship.

An open picture book contrasts a spare depiction of a ship in a storm with a graphic depiction of the same scene: breaking water, straining ropes, shredded sailcloth and a wave crashing across the deck.

Etymology

graphicGreekof writing or drawing; picturesque

The ancestor covered writing and drawing as well as picturesque description. A graphic account presents its subject vividly, making words work like a picture.

In context

Department of Life Sciences Communication24:18

this is a car crash so if you text and drive and it's really graphic and gross versus not so there's this whole literature that's doing that called vividness effects

LSC Colloquium: Karyn Riddle - “‘There was a lot of blood’: Vivid media violence and its effects”

More examples

The account was too graphic for young readers.
She gave a graphic description of the accident.
The editor removed the most graphic passage.

Forms

graphic

Similar words

vivid: Strongly clear without necessarily disturbing detail.
explicit: States or shows things directly rather than leaving them implied.