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ADJECTIVE (4)

1. evoking lifelike images within the mind;
- Example: "pictorial poetry and prose"
- Example: "graphic accounts of battle"
- Example: "a lifelike portrait"
- Example: "a vivid description"
[syn: graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]

2. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience;
- Example: "a vivid recollection"

3. having striking color;
- Example: "bright dress"
- Example: "brilliant tapestries"
- Example: "a bird with vivid plumage"
[syn: bright, brilliant, vivid]

4. (of color) having the highest saturation;
- Example: "vivid green"
- Example: "intense blue"
[syn: intense, vivid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

vivid \viv"id\ (v[i^]v"[i^]d), 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.
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            In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
                                                  --Cowper.
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            Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
            painting, the human face and human form divine.
                                                  --Bp. Hobart.
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   2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
      lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
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            Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
            faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --South.
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   Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
        sprightly; active.
        [1913 Webster] -- viv"id*ly, adv. -- viv"id*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vivid
    adj 1: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial
           poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a
           lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn:
           graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]
    2: having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a
       vivid recollection"
    3: having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant
       tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: bright,
       brilliant, vivid]
    4: (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green";
       "intense blue" [syn: intense, vivid]


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

VIVID

   A numerical constraint-oriented language.

   ["VIVID: The Kernel of a Knowledge Representation Environment
   Based on the Constraints Paradigm of Computation", J. Maleki,
   Proc 20th Annual Hawaii Intl Conf on System Sciences (Jan
   1987) pp.591-597].

   (1995-02-23)