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vivid |
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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