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vividly

[viv-id]

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adjective

strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.

full of life; lively; animated: a vivid personality.

presenting the appearance, freshness, spirit, etc., of life; realistic: a vivid account.

strong, distinct, or clearly perceptible: a vivid recollection.

forming distinct and striking mental images: a vivid imagination.

Origin:
1630–40; < Latin vīvidus lively, equivalent to vīv(ere) to live (see vital) + -idus -id⁴

Related forms

viv·id·ly, adverb

viv·id·ness, vi·vid·i·ty, noun

o·ver·viv·id, adjective

o·ver·viv·id·ly, adverb

o·ver·viv·id·ness, noun

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un·viv·id, adjective

un·viv·id·ly, adverb

un·viv·id·ness, noun

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Synonyms
1. bright, brilliant, intense. 2. spirited, vivacious, intense. 3. See picturesque.

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Example Sentences

TO preside over a social hierarchy requires a sharp eye for detail, and this may explain why snobs often write vividly.

The extensive home movies featured in the film show the time and place vividly.

Even scholars are excited by the chance to view such fine and vividly coloured pieces face to face.

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TO preside over a social hierarchy requires a sharp eye for detail, and this may explain why snobs often write vividly.

The extensive home movies featured in the film show the time and place vividly.

Even scholars are excited by the chance to view such fine and vividly coloured pieces face to face.

Maya history became a tapestry of precise dates and vividly named personages.

Think vividly of cutting open a juicy lemon and then bringing it towards your face and finally biting down of the sour fruit.

Palermo challenged conventional painting by fashioning alternative materials into vividly colored geometric forms.

Moreover, it's not so much patently hot as it is vividly seasoned.

In brightly lit, high-contrast settings the camera had difficulty focusing on vividly colored objects.

Also vividly portrayed are the men and women who live, work and fight there.

Information processing and telecoms witness vividly to the effect of sharp price falls.

The author explains the story so vividly that even the strongest of heart will feel weepy.

It vividly reminded me of my favorite vacation to date.

The story is full of vividly conjured personalities.

By turns exotic and mysterious, it vividly links ancient to modern.

Even if protests fizzle for the time being, a certain pride of reclaiming possession was vividly in evidence.

The illustrations also vividly portray certain events in the story, making it easier to understand.

It is his work that lives so vividly in my mind's eye and the capemy garment of choice.

There aren't many books that capture the birth of a culture this vividly.

Manheimer vividly describes his experiences overcoming cancer, and how.

The setting is so vividly described that it makes you want to go and live there.

Nothing can capture more vividly what's actually happening to the world than what you see in a picture before you.

The movies are often accused of glorifying violence, but they can also convey its horror far more vividly than this book does.

They were using a selection of vividly coloured powders that were sprinkled in turn to create a beautiful pattern.

But the blogs did do a really good job of showing peru vividly.

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World English Dictionary

vivid (ˈvɪvɪd)

—*adj*
1.	(of a colour) very bright; having a very high saturation or purity; produced by a pure or almost pure colouring agent
2.	brilliantly coloured: vivid plumage
3.	conveying to the mind striking realism, freshness, or trueness to life; graphic: a vivid account
4.	(of a recollection, memory, etc) remaining distinct in the mind
5.	(of the imagination, etc) prolific in the formation of lifelike images
6.	making a powerful impact on the emotions or senses: a vivid feeling of shame
7.	uttered, operating, or acting with vigour: vivid expostulations
8.	full of life or vitality: a vivid personality

[C17: from Latin vīvidus animated, from vīvere to live]

'vividly

—*adv*

'vividness

—n

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Word Origin & History

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.

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"For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time."

-D.H. Lawrence

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