VIVIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vividly mean? 

• VIVIDLY (adverb)
  The adverb VIVIDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a vivid manner

  Familiarity information: VIVIDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIVIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a vivid manner

Context example:

he described his adventures vividly

Pertainym:

vivid (evoking lifelike images within the mind)

 Context examples 

I have started up so vividly impressed by it, that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room, in the still night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you are writing a novel, for example, your editor might want you to define one of your characters more vividly to improve the strength of the story.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I well remembered all; language, glance, and tone seemed at the moment vividly renewed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The light shone vividly into the opened safe, and the secretary of the embassy gazed with an absorbed interest at the rows of stuffed pigeon-holes with which it was furnished.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks shining vividly in the sun.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The force with which they struggled was vividly impressed on me; for I was knocked down by their surging bodies and badly bruised.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In imagination he dared to think of her lips on his, and so vividly did he imagine that he went dizzy at the thought and seemed to rift through clouds of rose-petals, filling his brain with their perfume.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have mentioned the ape-men, and I cannot forbear from saying that some of the sounds which now meet my ears bring back most vividly to my recollection my experiences with those interesting creatures.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not nearly so well done, but there was a life and spirit in it which atoned for many faults, and it recalled the past so vividly that a sudden change swept over the young man's face as he looked.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It passed before him, as he spoke, so vividly, that, in the intensity of his earnestness, he presented what he described to me, with greater distinctness than I can express.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)