vivid
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vivid/ˈvɪvɪd/
▶adjective
- 1 producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind: a vivid description.
- 2 (of a colour) intensely deep or bright.
- 3 archaic lively and vigorous.
– derivatives
vividly adverb,
vividness noun.
vividly adverb,
vividness noun.
– origin C17: from L. vividus, from vivere ‘to live’.
'vivid' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adonis blue
- after-image
- bold
- bright
- brilliant
- carmine
- Chinese red
- cornflower
- Fauve
- figure of speech
- flashback
- fuchsia
- historic present
- lurid
- Ming
- Paris green
- picturesque
- psychedelic
- riotous
- rosella
- royal blue
- sap green
- sweet william
- Technicolor
