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[ UK /vˈɪvɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈvɪvəd, ˈvɪvɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having strong or striking color
    a bird with vivid plumage
    brilliant tapestries
    bright dress
  2. evoking lifelike images within the mind
    graphic accounts of battle
    pictorial poetry and prose
    a vivid description
    a lifelike portrait
  3. (of color) having the highest saturation
    intense blue
    vivid green
  4. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
    a vivid recollection

How To Use vivid In A Sentence

  • In the 5th century B.C., Asian artists discovered that the mineral cinnabar produced a stable, vivid red.
  • I play the stunning orchestral suite quite often, at which time the film comes vividly alive again and again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
  • This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
  • After she'd gone he had drawn up a scorecard, ranging her qualities on one side - her intellectual gifts and vivid, racy conversation - and on the other all the vicious things she'd said.
  • Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein provides a vivid account of what it was like to endure carpet-bombing.
  • Then back to the city and its vivid smells, the wail of tzigane orchestras, the little dancer of the Orpheum - what was her name?
  • The incident left a vivid impression on me.
  • The actors themselves are firmly located in contemporary Rome: the vivid specificity of the social milieux is sometimes more reminiscent of satire than of earlier elegy.
  • Their inspiring successes paint a vivid picture of how this is necessary.
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