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Vivid

Vivid Meaning & Definition
Vivid Definition And Meaning

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

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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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