vivid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite evoking lifelike images within the mind
    graphic; lifelike; pictorial.
    • pictorial poetry and prose
    • graphic accounts of battle
    • a lifelike portrait
    • a vivid description
  2. adjective satellite having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
    • a vivid recollection
  3. adjective satellite having striking color
    brilliant; bright.
    • bright dress
    • brilliant tapestries
    • a bird with vivid plumage
  4. adjective satellite (of color) having the highest saturation
    intense.
    • vivid green
    • intense blue

WordNet

Viv"id adjective
Etymology
L. vividus, from vivere to life; akin to vivus living. See Quick, a., and cf. Revive, Viand, Victuals, Vital.
Definitions
  1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
    In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play. Cowper.
    Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart.
  2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
    Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. South.
    Syn. -- Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick; sprightly; active. -- Viv"id*ly, adv. -- Viv"id*ness, n.

Webster 1913