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English Dictionary: vivid	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for vivid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vivid adj evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" Synonym(s): graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection" having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" Synonym(s): bright, brilliant, vivid (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue" Synonym(s): intense, vivid
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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"idly}, adv. -- {Viv"idness}, n.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)