vivid

Adjective
Synonyms: graphiclifelikepictorialbrightbrilliantintense

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (4)

  1. evoking lifelike images within the mind“pictorial poetry and prose”“graphic accounts of battle”“a lifelike portrait”“a vivid description”Synonyms: graphiclifelikepictorial
  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”Synonyms: brightbrilliant
  4. (of color) having the highest saturation“vivid green”“intense blue”Synonyms: intense
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.— Cowper.[1913 Webster]
Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine.— Bp. Hobart.[1913 Webster]

2.Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination. [1913 Webster]

Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in.— South.[1913 Webster]

Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick; sprightly; active. [1913 Webster] -- viv"id*ly, adv. -- viv"id*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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)

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