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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant: a vivid star.
  2. adj. Having intensely bright colors: a vivid tapestry.
  3. adj. Having a very high degree of saturation: a vivid purple.
  4. adj. Presented in clear and striking manner: a vivid account of the incident. See Synonyms at graphic.
  5. adj. Perceived or felt with the freshness of immediate experience: a vivid recollection of their childhood.
  6. adj. Active in forming lifelike images: a vivid imagination.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; bright; clear; lively; fresh; strong; intense: as, the vivid colors of the rainbow; the vivid green of flourishing vegetables.
  2. Producing a distinct and strong impression on the mind; presented to the mind with exceptional clearness and force; of a mental faculty. having a clear and vigorous action.
  3. Synonyms Lucid, striking, lustrous, luminous, vigorous.

Wiktionary

  1. n. New Zealand A felt-tipped permanent marker.
  2. adj. clear, detailed or powerful
  3. adj. of an image bright, intense or colourful
  4. adj. full of life, strikingly alive

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense.
  2. adj. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
  2. adj. having striking color
  3. adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind
  4. adj. (of color) having the highest saturation

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vividus ("animated, spirited"), from vivere ("to live"), akin to vita ("life"), Greek βίος (bios, "life"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin vīvidus, from vīvere, to live. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (16)

Words with the same meaning

  1. striking
  2. clear
  3. sprightly
  1. lively
  2. strong
  3. bright
  1. quick
  2. active
  3. lucid
  1. animated
  2. spirited
  3. intense
  1. fresh
  2. living
  3. loud
  1. brilliant

equivalents (6)

Other words for ‘vivid’

  1. clear
  1. colourful
  1. colorful
  1. realistic
  1. pure
  1. saturated

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. dull

same context (6)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. brilliant
  1. intense
  1. dramatic
  1. lively
  1. exquisite
  1. startle

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. livid

reverse dictionary (171)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. vividly
  2. crimson
  3. picturesque
  4. vivid
  5. flashback
  6. lurid
  7. emerald green
  8. lively
  9. lobelia
  10. dramatic
  11. lightning
  12. heat lightning
  13. delineated
  14. hypotyposis
  15. imagery
  16. high-colored
  17. live
  18. Casanova
  19. chinese-red
  20. glow
  21. grass-green
  22. vive
  23. vividness
  24. word-painter
  25. word picture
  26. Bengal light
  27. graphic
  28. parusia
  29. picture
  30. resplendence
  31. rubineous
  32. sparklingly
  33. sparklingness
  34. speaking
  1. bush-bath
  2. firus
  3. 74GBP
  4. hypermnesia
  5. showId
  6. avaram
  7. bayamo
  8. coruscate
  9. daffodil
  10. Dekker
  11. Gibran
  12. Munro
  13. Carpaccio
  14. paprika
  15. Buck
  16. shocking
  17. impressive
  18. striking
  19. sunflower
  20. fluorescent
  21. Dolomite Alps
  22. shrill
  23. vermilion
  24. peppery
  25. freeze-frame
  26. blood red
  27. apple green
  28. after-image
  29. dull
  30. emphasis
  31. expression
  32. tangerine
  33. tanner's cassia
  34. Tyrian purple
  1. ultramarine
  2. vermillion
  3. word-painting
  4. prose poem
  5. night terror
  6. eidetic
  7. Shirer
  8. fauvism
  9. carmine
  10. Froissart
  11. fuchsia
  12. cerise
  13. cobalt blue
  14. lemon yellow
  15. cochineal
  16. photographic
  17. gold
  18. keen
  19. pepper
  20. picturesqueness
  21. pseudohallucination
  22. psychedelic
  23. scarlet
  24. senna auriculata
  25. violent
  26. vision
  27. wild
  28. arc
  29. canary
  30. cameo
  31. cardinal
  32. color
  33. poppy
  34. contrast
  1. dandelion
  2. description
  3. neon
  4. Adams
  5. Burroughs
  6. impress
  7. tone
  8. image
  9. Williams
  10. poem
  11. luscious
  12. Davis
  13. jet
  14. hyacinth
  15. imprint
  16. tableau
  17. geranium
  18. deep red
  19. flash
  20. flashing
  21. giovanni jacopo casanova
  22. giovanni jacopo casanova de seingalt
  23. ingrain
  24. orange red
  25. ruby
  26. saturation
  27. vively
  28. Casanova de Seingalt
  29. cassia auriculata
  30. characterisation
  31. characterization
  32. chroma
  33. cinnabar
  34. delineate
  1. delineation
  2. depiction
  3. impressiveness
  4. instill
  5. intensity
  6. painting
  7. pink
  8. portrait
  9. radiance
  10. radiant
  11. rich
  12. spirituous
  13. vividity
  14. aphorism
  15. brisk
  16. cant
  17. cardinal winds
  18. cold
  19. eloquent
  20. f
  21. feeling
  22. fire
  23. gladness
  24. glare
  25. id
  26. insistent
  27. Life
  28. now
  29. poetry
  30. pottery
  31. rose-color
  32. strong
  33. glasswort
  34. tornado
  1. who

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