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adjective

vivid adj.

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." "Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine."

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."

Synonyms: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick; sprightly; active.

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Etymology of 'Vivid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vivid" Quotes from Famous Books

... Above the cliffs, white and sharp and fantastic in their outline, snowy mountain summits showed clear against the deep blue sky. Between them, imperceptibly moving on its secular way, hung the glacier, a track of vivid ultramarine and green, looking like a giant pathway to the stars. Mildred guessed she was in Switzerland. She knew that it should be easy to get back to England, yet for her with her peculiar inexperience of life, it would not be ...

— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods

... calls three on The Dutchman. His badge number was 11,785. Yes, that's the bet; I remember Billy Cass takin' it. You see," he continued, explanatory of his vivid memory, "he's gen'rally a piker—plays a long shot—an' his limit's twenty dollars; so, when he comes next a favorite that day with a cool thou' it give me stoppage of the heart. Damn'd if I didn't get cold feet. Bet yer life it wasn't Billy's ...

— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser

... her leaving Egypt would be to her arrival in the country! How flattened out and disillusioned she would feel! What an ordinary, everyday ending to her vivid romance in the Valley! When she thought of the little hut, almost hidden in one of the many wrinkles of the hills, she smiled. Her senses glowed; she visualized the arid scene, suddenly transformed into an Eden with Love's passion-flowers. No garden ...

— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer

... kept silent as to that strange condition of affairs which has tortured me in my sleep for the past year and a half; no one but myself has until this writing known that for that period of time I have had a continuous, logical dream-life; a life so vivid and so dreadfully real to me that I have found myself at times wondering which of the two lives I was living and which I was dreaming; a life in which that other wicked self has dominated, and forced me to a career of shame and ...

— Ghosts I have Met and Some Others • John Kendrick Bangs

... brought out its distinctive features with singular distinctness against a background of olive-green wall and velvet curtain. Its covering of glossy white damask, its ornaments of Venetian glass, the delicate yet vivid colours of the hothouse flowers and fruit in the dishes, the gem-like tints of the wines, the very texture and the hues of the Bulgarian embroidery upon the d'oyleys, formed a study in colour which an artist would have loved to ...

— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

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