vivid
[viv-id]
- strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.
- full of life; lively; animated: a vivid personality.
- 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.
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Contemporary Examples
I vividly recall, that day and the weeks afterward, people groping for a decent way forward.
On video, Raymond Santana was smug, boastful, and nonchalant by turns, vividly reenacting who did what during the rape.
Has it not been vividly described in all its horror by Eli Wiesel and others?
He vividly remembers Shirley Tilghman, then the president of Princeton, asking for his prediction.
Meet the One Numbers-Cruncher Who Foresees Democrats Holding the SenateLinda Killian
September 16, 2014
His letters to them show how their predicament brought his own vividly back to him.
Historical Examples
I vividly remember the first occasion on which I saw Bismarck.
Camps, Quarters and Casual PlacesArchibald Forbes
It all came back to me vividly now and I tried to tell what I had seen.
The HarborErnest Poole
I saw the Tennyson funeral in the Abbey, and remember it vividly.
A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume IIMrs. Humphry Ward
How she works, how she studies, how she suffers, are vividly portrayed.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
But piracy in the far future, when presented as vividly as in this story, can be scary stuff.
This One ProblemM. C. Pease
vivid
- (of a colour) very bright; having a very high saturation or purity; produced by a pure or almost pure colouring agent
- brilliantly colouredvivid plumage
- conveying to the mind striking realism, freshness, or trueness to life; graphica 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 sensesa vivid feeling of shame
- uttered, operating, or acting with vigourvivid expostulations
- full of life or vitalitya vivid personality
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin vīvidus animated, from vīvere to live
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Word Origin and History for vividly
vivid
adj.
1630s, from Latin vividus "spirited, animated, lively," from vivus "alive," from PIE *gwei- (see vital). Extension to colors is first recorded 1660s. Sense of "strong, distinct" (as of memories, etc.) is from 1680s; that of "very active or intense" (as of imagination, interest, etc.) is from 1853. Related: Vividly; vividness.
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