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]

2 having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"

3 having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: bright, brilliant]

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

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. Clear, detailed, and powerful perception.
2. Graphic.
3. Bright.

Derived terms

• vividness
• vividly

Translations

• Czech: živý
• Romanian: vioi

Spanish

Verb form

vivid

1. second-person plural imperative form of vivir.

Vivid may refer to:

• Adj.: Alive, animated, fresh, full of life, or spirited; clearly and sharply perceptible; having existence; a living characteristic (from Latin vividus: viv(ere) [= to live] + -idus [a descriptive suffix signaling the use of a word as an adjective])
• The quality of having "lively" colors (the original definition) or of an imaging system having a wide color space
• A synonym for animated, lucid, fresh or lively states of mind, as in a "vivid imagination"
• Vivid London, the London advertising agency
• Vivid (album), the 1988 debut album by Living Colour
• Vivid Entertainment, a company that produces and distributes pornographic movies
• Aston ViVid, a range of Character Generators manufactured by Aston Broadcast Systems Ltd.
• Vivid, a brand of bleach produced by Reckitt Benckiser.
• VIVID (media arts), a media art centre in Birmingham, England
• Vivid, a song by now-disbanded J-Rock band Fairy Fore

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