Graphic Images

[jomifl]

I've never known any images that weren't graphic. What does the word graphic mean to you?

[sandyRoe]

vivid?

[Baldric]

Shown or described vividly and in great detail.

[jomifl]

To me a graphic description is one that conveys an accurate image. The media seem to use it to mean 'shocking' or 'horrifying'.

[RATTER15]

As above ^^^^

[DaisyNonna]

drawn

[jomifl]

^ exactly

[Old_Geezer]

Depends on context. Used in your expression it usually suggests not for the weak stomached to look at. But it can have other meanings.

[jomifl]

A graphic description used to be one that drew a realistic image in your mind. A graphic image though ...not a photograph then?

[Peter Pedant]

jomifl - try Saussure -

some of the words ( signs ) take meanings from the words that precede or follow them. ( definition of a syntagma )

graphic here is changed by being near image and takes on the meaning of horrifying

OK place dans une syntagme, une terme n'acquiert sa valeur que parce qu'il est oppose a ce qui precede ou ce qu'il suit ou a tous les deux....

you see I do do things other than meaner around AB

[jomifl]

PP, oui, bien sur mais pourquoi? et quand? It is a relatively recent development though and the word graphic has now taken on a new meaning entirely for no apparent reason other than the sloppy English of news presenters.