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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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