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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 striking color
4. (of color) having the highest saturation

Familiarity information: VIVID used as an adjective is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• VIVID (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Evoking lifelike images within the mind

Synonyms:

lifelike; vivid; pictorial; graphic

Context examples:

pictorial poetry and prose / graphic accounts of battle / a lifelike portrait / a vivid description

Similar:

realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience

Context example:

a vivid recollection

Similar:

clear (clear to the mind)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

Having striking color

Synonyms:

bright; vivid; brilliant

Context examples:

bright dress / brilliant tapestries / a bird with vivid plumage

Similar:

colorful; colourful (having striking color)

Sense 4

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Meaning:

(of color) having the highest saturation

Synonyms:

intense; vivid

Context examples:

vivid green / intense blue

Similar:

pure; saturated ((of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black)

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