Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant: a vivid star.
- adj. Having intensely bright colors: a vivid tapestry.
- adj. Having a very high degree of saturation: a vivid purple.
- adj. Presented in clear and striking manner: a vivid account of the incident. See Synonyms at graphic.
- adj. Perceived or felt with the freshness of immediate experience: a vivid recollection of their childhood.
- adj. Active in forming lifelike images: a vivid imagination.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- 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.
- Synonyms Lucid, striking, lustrous, luminous, vigorous.
Wiktionary
- n. A felt-tipped permanent marker.
- adj. clear, detailed or powerful
- adj. bright, intense or colourful
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense.
- adj. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
- adj. having striking color
- adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind
- adj. (of color) having the highest saturation
Etymologies
- Latin vīvidus, from vīvere, to live; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The word "vivid" also describes the posters' graphic images and messages.”
“Mr. Roam's solution, which he calls vivid thinking, involves adding visuals.”
“A wonderful economy of words and yet you stroked the canvas in vivid colors.”
“You bring to life in vivid detail an aspect of WWII that we haven't heard a lot about: the frenzied evacuation of the Germans as the Eastern front crumbled and the Russians advanced.”
A conversation with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian about his novel, Skeletons at the Feast
“Google earth presents complex information in vivid ways that are easy to comprehend.”
“Joel Johnson details in vivid detail the sexual molestation he was a victim of.”
“The documents sketch, in vivid detail, a critical change in the way America wages war: the early days of the Iraq war, with all its Wild West chaos, ushered in the era of the private contractor, wearing no uniform but fighting and dying in battle, gathering and disseminating intelligence and killing presumed insurgents," the paper said.”
The Guardian: Iraq war logs: media reaction around the world
“Facial expressions certainly offer clues to who we are, but clothes tell the rest of the nonverbal story in vivid color, strident patterns or conservative silhouettes.”
The Washington Post: The burqa in France: Removing the veil without facing society's shortcomings
“While so many of the young people we met will always be vivid memories, two images remain vivid and powerful.”
“She denied ever entering a union with him, but said she remembered the sexual abuse in vivid detail.”
Self-described pastor gets five years in prison for sex with 10-year-old ‘wife’
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘vivid’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Visuals
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photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 624 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plain hilarious
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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gangster
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common UA vocab. in US
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jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Light Adjectives
lucid, bright, fluorescent, luminous, lustrous, vivid, radiant, shining, clear, brilliant, scintillant, unclouded and 10 more...
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I am : bright
Verbs and adjectives (mostly adjectives) pertaining to physical light, brightness and/or clarity.
bright, brilliant, ablaze, afire, aflame, incandescent, fluorescent, phosphorescent, lucent, lambent, transparent, clear and 26 more...
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vivids's list
picturesque, lovelight, twinkle, agleam, droplet, sunlight, shimmer, epitome, shard, mist, starlight, rain and 23 more...
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Words Made Of Roman Numerals
dividivi, cimicic, civic, civil, idic, dill, livid, mild, ilicic, vivid, clim, imidic and 43 more...
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