Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Vividly descriptive: Creating clear, detailed, and lifelike mental images, often through explicit or detailed description.
   • Relating to visual art or design: Pertaining to the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, or other visual representation.
   • Relating to diagrams or charts: Represented by or involving graphs, diagrams, or other non-textual visual formats.

2. Noun:

   • A visual representation: An image, diagram, or illustration, especially one generated by a computer.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:

  • The journalist provided a graphic account of the event, leaving little to the imagination.
  • She is studying graphic design at the university.
  • The data was presented in a clear, graphic format.

• Noun:

  • The website uses high-quality graphics to enhance user experience.
  • The report was accompanied by several informative graphics.

Advanced Usage

• "In graphic detail": Describing something with explicit and often disturbing vividness.
  • The documentary showed the aftermath of the disaster in graphic detail.

Variants and Related Words

• Graphically (adverb): In a vivid or visual manner.
  • The scene was described graphically.
• Graphics (plural noun): The products of graphic arts or computer-generated images collectively.
  • The video game is praised for its stunning graphics.

Synonyms

• Vivid: Producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.
• Pictorial: Relating to or consisting of pictures.
• Explicit: Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt (often for descriptions).

Related Phrases

• Graphic novel: A novel in comic-strip format.
  • He enjoys reading graphic novels more than traditional books.
• Graphic designer: A professional who creates visual content.
  • She works as a graphic designer for an advertising agency.

Adjective

1. evoking lifelike images within the mind
   • pictorial poetry and prose
   • graphic accounts of battle
   • a lifelike portrait
   • a vivid description
2. relating to or presented by a graph
   • a graphic presentation of the data
3. of or relating to the graphic arts
   • the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work- British Book News
4. describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
   • graphic sexual scenes
5. written or drawn or engraved
   • graphic symbols

Noun

1. an image that is generated by a computer