vivid

Examples

• All

• My mother has a very vivid imagination, and nothing would please her better.

  The Luzhin Defence (2000)

• You make it all so vivid I can almost see it!

  23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

• His memory is very vivid to me.

• Success does require a clear, vivid and bold picture of the future.

• I have very elaborate, vivid and complicated dreams.

  Dr. Mayim Bialik

• Another question for the imagery group asked, "Overall, how vivid were the images you formed before the serves?"

  Academic text (2008)

• Throughout his life, Piaget frequently spoke of a vivid memory of an incident from his early childhood.

  Academic text (2011)

• The Bush administration's approach to this region has been its most vivid departure from prior policy.

  Academic text (2008)

• The Great Depression was still a vivid memory, and each recession generated political anguish.

  Academic text (1999)

• The artist painted a vivid landscape that captured the beauty of the mountains at sunrise.

Synonyms

G

graphic

vsvivid

• Offensive

100 6.0

Very clear and detailed about violent or sexual scenes

focuses on strong clear lifelike imagery without explicit or shocking detail

E

evocative

vsvivid

23 6.7

Making you remember things or feel strong emotions

focuses on clear lifelike strength and detail of those mental images

P

pictorial

vsvivid

• Literature

4 6.1

That gives a clear picture in the mind with vivid words

applies to any medium producing strong, clear images or feelings

Antonyms

D

dull

31 1.0

Not bright or shiny with weak colour

B

bland

23 2.0

Food that has a very weak taste and little or no strong flavor

Compounds

V

vivid imagery

• Literature

1 4.0

Words that make a clear strong picture in your mind

V

vivid wordscape

• Literature

8.2

A clear, colorful description in words that makes you imagine the scene

How Vivid

graphic

• Offensive

100 6.0

lifelike

22 3.9

vivid

102 3.3

clear

∞ 1.0

to dull

33 3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology