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viv⋅id

  [viv-id]
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–adjective
1. strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.
2. full of life; lively; animated: a vivid personality.
3. presenting the appearance, freshness, spirit, etc., of life; realistic: a vivid account.
4. strong, distinct, or clearly perceptible: a vivid recollection.
5. forming distinct and striking mental images: a vivid imagination.
Origin:
1630–40; < L vīvidus lively, equiv. to vīv(ere) to live (see vital ) + -idus -id 4

Related forms:
viv⋅id⋅ly, adverb
viv⋅id⋅ness, vi⋅vid⋅i⋅ty, noun

Synonyms:
1. bright, brilliant, intense. 2. spirited, vivacious, intense. 3. See picturesque.
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viv·id   (vĭv'ĭd)   
adj.   viv·id·er, viv·id·est
  1. Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant: a vivid star.
    1. Having intensely bright colors: a vivid tapestry.
    2. Having a very high degree of saturation: a vivid purple.
  3. Presented in clear and striking manner: a vivid account of the incident. See Synonyms at graphic.
  4. Perceived or felt with the freshness of immediate experience: a vivid recollection of their childhood.
  5. Active in forming lifelike images: a vivid imagination.

[Latin vīvidus, from vīvere, to live; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.]
viv'id·ly adv., viv'id·ness n.
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Vivid

Viv"id\, a. [L. vividus, from vivere to life; akin to vivus living. See Quick, a., and cf. Revive, Viand, Victuals, Vital.]

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's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : vivid
Spanish: vivo, intenso,
German: leuchtend,
Japanese: 鮮かな
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vivid 
1638, from L. vividus "spirited, animated, lively," from vivus "alive," from PIE *gwei- (see vital). Extension to colors is first recorded 1665. Sense of "strong, distinct" (as of memories, etc.) is from 1690; that of "very active or intense" (as of imagination, interest, etc.) is from 1853.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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VIVID
A numerical constraint-oriented language.
["VIVID: The Kernel of a Knowledge Representation Environment Based on the Constraints Paradigm of Computation", J. Maleki, Proc 20th Annual Hawaii Intl Conf on System Sciences (Jan 1987) pp.591-597].
(1995-02-23)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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