Definitions for: Vivid


[adj] (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"
[adj] having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"
[adj] having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"
[adj] evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"



Webster (1913) Definition: Viv"id, a. [L. vividus, from vivere to life; akin to
vivus living. See Quick, a., and cf. Revive, Viand,
Victuals, Vital.]
1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or
freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense;
as, vivid colors.

In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
--Cowper.

Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
painting, the human face and human form divine.
--Bp. Hobart.

2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.

Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --South.

Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
sprightly; active. -- Viv"id*ly, adv. --
Viv"id*ness, n.

Synonyms: bright, brilliant, clear, colorful, colourful, graphic, intense, lifelike, pictorial, pure, realistic, saturated

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