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VIVID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vivid mean?
• VIVID (adjective)
The adjective VIVID has 4 senses:
1. evoking lifelike images within the mind
2. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
3. having strong or striking color
4. (of color) having the highest saturation
Familiarity information: VIVID used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evoking lifelike images within the mind
Synonyms:
graphic; lifelike; pictorial; vivid
Context example:
a vivid description
Similar:
realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)
Derivation:
vividness (interest and variety and intensity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
Context example:
a vivid recollection
Similar:
clear (readily apparent to the mind)
Derivation:
vividness (interest and variety and intensity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having strong or striking color
Synonyms:
Context example:
a bird with vivid plumage
Similar:
colorful; colourful (having much or varied color)
Derivation:
vividness (chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of color) having the highest saturation
Synonyms:
intense; vivid
Context example:
intense blue
Similar:
pure; saturated ((of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black)
Derivation:
vividness (chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue)
Context examples
I had the pleasure of feeling that my arrangements met their wishes exactly, and that what I had done added a vivid charm to their joyous return home.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the new observations are known as auroras.
(Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere, NASA)
Saturn only visits you every 29 years, so he makes his lessons vivid for you to remember them.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Scientists have created a new map of the world's seafloor, offering a more vivid picture of the structures that make up the deepest, least-explored parts of the ocean.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
Among the most vivid memories of my life are those of the events on the Ghost which occurred during the forty hours succeeding the discovery of my love for Maud Brewster.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Two vivid red spots stood out on one of the white, round limbs.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet it was busy, too, with all the remembrances the place naturally awakened; and they were particularly distinct and vivid.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The disorder is characterized by dissociative symptoms; vivid recollections of the traumatic event; avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event; and a constant state of hyperarousal for no more than one month.
(Acute Stress Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Additionally, while green is the dominant color of earthly auroras, a vivid red color would stand out in a brown dwarf's aurora because of the higher hydrogen content of the object's atmosphere.
(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)
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