About The Word Vivid
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Vivid
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Vivid: bright | brilliant | clear | colorful | colourful | graphic | intense | lifelike | pictorial | pure | realistic | saturated Related Terms | Find terms related to Vivid: See Also | Vivid In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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