Thesaurus: vivid
True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
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Definitions
- a. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
- a. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
- adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind
- adj. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
- adj. having strong or striking color
- adj. (of color) having the highest saturation
- 1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors. In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play. Cowper. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart. 2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination. Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. South. Syn. -- Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick; sprightly; active. -- Viv"id*ly, adv. -- Viv"id*ness, n.
- j:100 s. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience