vivid
strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.
presenting the appearance, freshness, spirit, etc., of life; realistic: a vivid account.
strong, distinct, or clearly perceptible: a vivid recollection.
forming distinct and striking mental images: a vivid imagination.
Origin of vivid
1synonym study For vivid
Other words for vivid
Other words from vivid
- viv·id·ly, adverb
- viv·id·ness, vi·vid·i·ty [vi-vid-i-tee], /vɪˈvɪd ɪ ti/, noun
- o·ver·viv·id, adjective
- o·ver·viv·id·ness, noun
- un·viv·id, adjective
- un·viv·id·ness, noun
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How to use vivid in a sentence
There was nothing I could do about it, but it was also a very vivid period of my life.
'People Expect a Woman to Grieve a Certain Way.' What One Mom Learned About Trauma and Strength After Losing Her Young Son | Belinda Luscombe | January 20, 2021 | TimeThe book begins on a hill above his neighborhood, a favorite place from childhood, and though the place has changed, the memories remain vivid.
Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Walking with Ghosts’ is a revelation in unexpected ways | Keith Donohue | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostThis year demonstrated the importance of agility in a particularly vivid way, as companies of all sizes had to integrate creative solutions to implement transitions of people and their work environments.
Communication and courage: The top 5 corporate leadership lessons from 2020 | matthewheimer | December 31, 2020 | FortuneIdeal for middle school through college, this enhanced calculator has a vivid backlit display, rechargeable battery, preloaded apps, and MathPrint mode.
The best graphing calculators for students | PopSci Commerce Team | September 4, 2020 | Popular-SciencePart of this inspires my dreams of the global, multidimensional, interactive classroom where you can have a vivid, virtual meta-verse that allows real people from around the world to communicate with and learn from one another.
Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
Today, with the memories of Ingrid Bergman so vivid in his mind, it seems clear that he's been thinking about her a great deal.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy the end of his life, the memories of corporal punishment at the hands of his teachers were vivid.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor such songs, she pairs raunchy lyrics with vivid imagery.
This particular bit of airplane was vivid with the possibility that it was a significant clue.
First Impressions are usually vivid but the power to revive them is weak—a poor memory.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)And the most vivid First Impressions always result from the action of the intellect upon the sensuous stimuli from ear and eye.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)He was a new force and his pages kindled in our hearts a vivid feeling for the poor and their wrongs.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowTraveling is useful in that it gives us a more vivid idea of the immense amount of knowledge we yet lack.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyA more vivid concurrence can scarcely be imagined, since he and Bonaparte were both born in the same year, 1769.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
British Dictionary definitions for vivid
/ (ˈvɪvɪd) /
(of a colour) very bright; having a very high saturation or purity; produced by a pure or almost pure colouring agent
brilliantly coloured: vivid plumage
conveying to the mind striking realism, freshness, or trueness to life; graphic: a vivid account
(of a recollection, memory, etc) remaining distinct in the mind
(of the imagination, etc) prolific in the formation of lifelike images
making a powerful impact on the emotions or senses: a vivid feeling of shame
uttered, operating, or acting with vigour: vivid expostulations
full of life or vitality: a vivid personality
Origin of vivid
1Derived forms of vivid
- vividly, adverb
- vividness, noun
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