vivid

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having the highest saturation of color

   The vivid green walls added a playfulness to the room.

2. 2
   adj

   having striking color

   The vivid bird could be seen from far away.

3. 3
   adj

   having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience

   I have a vivid recollection of the day I was married.

4. 4
   adj

   evoking lifelike images within the mind

   The vivid writing transported the reader to another world.

5. 5
   adj

   Bright, intense, or colourful.

   Whenever the locomotive was working hard there was unmistakable evidence of its higher power than its predecessors in the brilliant and explosive arcing between conductor shoes and the third rail; this was particularly vivid in Quarry Tunnel in the down direction, where the display equalled anything we have seen on the frostiest of nights in an electrified third-rail area.

6. 6
   adj

   Full of life; strikingly alive.

   The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him, and for a time he had found delight in it; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.

7. 7
   adj

   Clear, detailed, or powerful.

8. 8
   noun

   A felt-tipped permanent marker; a marker pen.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti Proto-Italic *gʷīwō Latin vīvō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Latin -idus Latin vīviduslbor. English vivid Learned borrowing from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”). The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand.