explicit

Meaning

Adjective

• Very specific, clear, or detailed.
• Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic.

Related

Similar words

• raunchy

Opposite words

• implicit, unexplicit, vague
• circumspect

Origin

• First attested 1609, from French explicite, from Latin explicitus, an alternative form of the past participle of explico, from ex- + plicō. Pornographic sense is from 1971.