vivid

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  1. adjective Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant: a vivid star.
  2. adjective Having intensely bright colors: a vivid tapestry.
  3. adjective Having a very high degree of saturation: a vivid purple.

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  • The scenes are vivid, the incidents novel and many." —  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
  • So vivid was the conception in the popular mind, and so great the reverence entertained for it, that it was attempted to reproduce the type of the holy mountain in the palaces of their kings and the temples of their gods. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • Scott heartily welcomed Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk the next year, those clever, vivid, and apparently harmless sketches of the Edinburgh of that day,--literary, artistic, legal, clerical,--which caused an outcry not now to be understood. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
  • Both are bright and vivid, and have a fresh, blown-about look that walking in the wind invariably imparts. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • In a country where self-reliant hardihood and the ability to hold one's own under all circumstances ranked as the first of the virtues, to submit tamely to theft or to any other injury was, he knew, to invite almost certain repetition of the offense A journal which he kept for a month or two that spring gives in laconic terms a vivid picture of those March days March 22. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
 

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  1. Latin vīvidus, from vīvere, to live; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin vividus, animated, spirited, from vivere, live, akin to vita, life, Greek βίος, life, Sanskrit √ Jīv, live: see vital and quick.
 

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