3 definitions found
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"id*ly}, adv --
{Viv"id*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vivid
adj 1: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry
and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike
portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: {graphic}, {lifelike},
{pictorial}]
2: having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a
vivid recollection"
3: having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant
tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: {bright}, {brilliant}]
4: (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green";
"intense blue" [syn: {intense}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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)
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