Vivid

Definitions: Vivid

Vivid

Adjective

1. Evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description".

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".

4. (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vivid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Vivid \Viv"id\, adjective. [Latin expression vividus, from vivere to life; akin to vivus living. See Quick, adjective, and compare to Revive, Viand, Victuals, Vital.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

VIVID

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Vivid

Physical Energy

Adjective: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

Physical Sensibility

Acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.

Crosswords: Vivid

So your new-and-improved premonitions are just a more vivid way of telling us we're screwed? (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Was it one of those vivid dreams where you could feel his lips and smell his hair? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I have a vivid imagination, but I must say I never saw myself unpacking a prime minister! (Arabesque; writing credit: Gordon Cotler; Julian Mitchell)

Maybe it was a dream, you know, a very weird, bizarre, vivid, erotic, wet, detailed dream. (Weird Science; writing credit: John Hughes)

Vivid memories turn to fantasies ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith)

Porn King Vivid Raw 6: Son Doobie (1997)

Vivid (1997)

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References

• Vivid Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Daily Life in Medieval Times: A Vivid, Detailed Account of Birth, Marriage and Death; Food, Clothing and Housing; Love and Labor in the Middle Ages (reference)

• I Would Live It Again: Memories of a Vivid Life (reference)

• Revivify the Vivid (reference)

• Simple forms and vivid colors : an exhibition of Maine painted furniture, 1800-1850, at the Maine State Museum, July 8, 1983-February 28, 1984 (reference)

• Solomon's Song: A Novel: A Vivid Account of One of the Greatest Biblical Love Stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Vivid (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Vivid [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• KODAK VC160/120/5 Portra 160VC Vivid Color 120 Print Film (reference)

• 500-sheet Vivid White Inkjet Paper 100 Bright 24lb (reference)

• Avery Vivid White Inkjet Paper 100+ Bright 24LB (250 Sheets) (reference)

• TDK T-120 Vivid VHS Tape Special Package (reference)

• VIVID V.2.0T PALM OS & POCKET (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape ...Credit: NASA.

Pictures taken in infrared and visible light by the Hubble telescope recount a vivid story of ...Credit: NASA.

Television can convey a particularly vivid health message, but ... sets are rare outside the large towns. / UNESCO/WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dublin, Ireland--Armed troops and armoured cars pass the saluting base at College Green here during a vivid St. Patrick's Day display of nationalism by the Irish Free State Army.Credit: Library of Congress.

Ringling Bros. tremendous 1200 character spectacle Joan of Arc--An inspiring, vivid picture ... the magnificent coronation of Charles VII.Credit: Library of Congress.

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It had stupefied all blessed impulses, and awakened into vivid life the whole brotherhood of bad ones.

This was one of their most vivid pleasures.

Women and girls dressed in long vivid gowns traversed the street from house to house.

In some lights, viewed even from a hilltop, it is of a vivid green next the shore.

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Health

The MR imager takes pictures of body structures, such as the brain and spinal cord, in vivid detail. (references)

The most commonly reported minor side effects include nausea, dizziness, difficulty sleeping, and vivid dreams. (references)

LSD-induced persistent psychosis may include dramatic mood swings from mania to profound depression, vivid visual disturbances, and hallucinations. (references)

Business

Imported children's wear from the U.S. and Europe are usually recognized for its unique designs, vivid colors, delicate details. (references)

Tractors and harvesters provide a vivid example of U.S. dominance imposed by the equipment's technological superiority and versatility. (references)

U.S. technology is perceived to have a competitive edge. Forklift trucks provide a vivid example of U.S. dominance induced by the equipment's technological superiority and versatility. (references)

Political Economy

Argentina

On the other hand, the public's memory of decades of increasing economic chaos culminating in the hyper-inflationary episodes of 1989-90 is still vivid. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "vivid": vivid colour ♦ vivid description ♦ vivid imagination. Additional references.

Beginning with "vivid": vivid-green.

Ending with "vivid": too-vivid, ultra-vivid.

Albanian

i ndezur (ablaze, aglow, alight, bright, flamboyant, flame, glaring, glazy, hectic, high-colored, high-coloured, live, lively, noisy, on fire), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاقع (bright, brilliant, intense), ‏مشرق (agleam, beaming, beamy, bright, brilliant, clear, luminous, radiant, shining, shiny, splendid), ‏ناشط (active, alive, brisk, busy, furious, kinetic, pragmatic, smart, stirring), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, youthful), ‏حي (active, alive, animate, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, lifelike, live, lively, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nod, part, pictorial, picturesque, quarter, reanimate, recall, regenerate, section, ward), ‏زاه (bright, flashily, gay, glad, glaring, radiant, shining). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed), ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, zizzi), светъл (auspicious, bright, cheerful, cheery, clear, fair, fair haired, fine, light, liquid, lucent, lucid, pale, relucent, rosy, unshadowed, white), ослепителен (blinding, dazzling, flaring, glaring, intense), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), блестящ (agleam, bright, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, superb). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�动 (vividness), �"�動 , 傳神 (lifelike). (various references)

Czech

sytý (deep, filling, fruity, sick), svìží (breezy, brisk, fresh, nimble, picturesque, sweet), jasný (bright, broad, cheerful, clear, clear-cut, definite, distinct, fair, fresh, live, lucid, overt, pellucid, plain, radiant, serene, sheeny, shinny, straight, sunny, unambiguous, unequivocal), intenzivní (concentrated, exquisite, high pressure, intense, intensive, violent), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious). (various references)

Farsi 

واضح (Clear, Crystalline, Ditinct, Explicit, Graphic, Lucid, Obvious, Overt, Palpable, Perspicuous, Plain), زنده (Alive, Fresh, Lively, Quick), روشن (Alight, Alive, Bright, Definite, Diaphanous, Ditinct, Eidetic, Elucidate, Explicit, Express, Intelligible, Legible, Limpid, Lucid, Perspicuous, Serene, Set, Shrill, Sunny, Unequivocal). (various references)

Finnish

vilkas (active, animated, busy, lively, springhtly, vivacious), eloisa (animated, full of life, lively, sprightly, vivacious), elävä (animated, live, lively, living). (various references)

French

vivant (vibrant), vif (feline immuno-deficiency virus, vibrant, vivacious), expressif, éclatant. (various references)

German

lebhaft (agile, animated, bouncy, breezy, brisk, briskly, chirpy, eager, feisty, fresh, frisky, gay, lively, mercurial, mobile, quick, quicksilver, spiritedly, sprightly, vivace, vivacious, vividly). (various references)

Greek 

ζωντανόσ (alive, live, living), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, volatile, zippy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבריק (brilliant, glossy, glowing, lustrous, shining, shiny, sparkling, spick and span, whizz), ב�"יר (bright, clear, fair, limpid, lucid, manifest). (various references)

Hungarian

eleven (alive, animated, beany, bobbish, brisk, cheerful, kinetic, live, lively, living, mercurial, mettlesome, peart, perky, picturesque, racy of the soil, rattling, smart, sprightly, spruce, to be full of beans, to feel one's oats, vivacious), élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, alive, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, canty, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, keen, live, lively, loud cheers, mercurial, nimble, nippy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vigorous, vivacious, warm). (various references)

Indonesian

hidup (alive, life, live, vital), garang (cruel, ferocious, fierce, rampageous, savage, very strong, wild). (various references)

Italian

vivido (lifelike), vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious), chiaro (apparent, articulate, blond, bright, broad, clean-cut, clear, clearly, downright, emphatic, empty, evident, explicit, express, fair, frankly, intelligible, light, lucid, obvious, overt, pale, perspicuous, plain, pure, semi-white, sharp, sheer, straightforward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

躍如 (graphic, lifelike), 鮮明 (clear, distinct), 鮮やか (brilliant, clear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"�"ッド , せ�"れい (age of a vessel, baptism, bright, gorgeous, precedent, resplendent beauty), せ�"めい (clear, distinct), あざやか (brilliant, clear), やくじょたる (graphic, lifelike), やくじょ (graphic, lifelike), はつらつたる (lively, sprightly). (various references)

Korean 

생생한. (various references)

Manx

soilsheanagh (beaming, brilliant, glistening, glowing, lit up, luminous, lustrous, radiant, shiny, splendid). (various references)

Pig Latin

ividvay

Portuguese

vivo (above ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, Cork, Corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervently, frit, gauffer, gay, graphic card, graphically, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, lummox, lute, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimbleness, Nirvana, parlance, perm, pertain, piddle, piping, poignantly, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, Hale, hard cover book, healthful, healthy, hegemony, lively, lusty, nervous breakdown, nervy, peppy, pitiable, racy, red blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, Venturous, vigorous, virile, vital, wakeless, youthful, zippy), vívido (lively), intenso (acute, alive, deep, exquisite, high altitude, hot, intense, intensive, out-argue, quick, saturate, saturated, smart, strong), fulgurante (effulgent), brilhante (ablaze, agleam, bright, brilliant, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flamingo, fulgent, gay, glaring, glow worm, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, lud, luminous, lustrous, Orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole), ativo (abuzz, acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetics, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, nippy, operative, pushful, quick, rangy, rustler, smart, spry, stirring, strenuous, vivacious), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, Corky, divertissement, entertainment, exhilarated, fester, festively, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday maker, jaunty, jocular, jocundity, jolly, joviality, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larkspur, laughing, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vividly), strãlucitor (ablaze, bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, flashy, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendid, starry), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent). (various references)

Russian 

ясный (articulate, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, definite, direct, distinct, fine, lucid, matter of course, obvious, pellucid, perspicuous, pronounced, self-explanatory, unshadowed), яркий (bright, clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glaring, glowing, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, psychedelic, shiny, showy, sinewy, sunbright, zippy), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, zippy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, hefty, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, well knit), jasan (bright, broad, clear, distinct, downright, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, plain, sharp cut), živopisan (graphic, graphical, picturesque), živ (alive, hoof: on the hoof, live, living, quick, rousing). (various references)

Spanish

vívido. (various references)

Swedish

livfull (lively, spirited, vibrant). (various references)

Turkish

yalın (bald, bare, naked, nominative, plain, severe, simple, simplex, simplificative, unvarnished), parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny), inandırıcı (cogent, colorable, conclusive, convincing, credible, demonstrative, evidential, evidentiary, likely, persuasive, potent), hayat dolu (alive, alive and kicking, animate, animated, as fresh as daisy, Corky, dewy, exuberant, fresh, full of life, genial, live, lively, quick, sprightly, vital, vivacious), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, warm, with it, zippy). (various references)

Ukranian 

яскравий (bright, brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, garish, gorgeous, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, lightsome, noisy, obvious, oriental, pictorial, picturesque, powerful, quicksilver, sober, starry), чіткий (articulate, clear-cut, coherent, crisp, neat, orotund, plucky, precise, well-defined), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, whisky, youthful, zippy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sâu sắc (abstruse, deep, insightful, intimately, racy), mạnh mẽ (boot, energetic, furious, fury, impetuous, lusty, manly, mightily, pithily, pretty, rousing, sinewy, sturdy, vibrant, violent), chói lọi (aureate, dazzling, flamboyant, luminous, lustrous, refulgent, resplendent, shining). (various references)

vividus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vivid": vivider, vividest, vividly, vividness, vividnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "vivid": overvivid. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vivid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eivind, ivid, vacid, vamid, vaxid, vidid, vimid, vivad, vivas, vivd, vived, vivel, viver, vivi, vivir, vivis, vivit, vivity, vivus, vivy, vvi, Vxvmi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: id.

+2 letters: divvied, divvies, vivider, vividly.

+3 letters: chivvied, divisive, divvying, skivvied, viverrid, vividest, vivified.

+4 letters: overvivid, redivivus, viverrids, vividness.

+5 letters: derivative, divisively, revivified, vindictive, vivandiere, vivisected.

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