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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vivid
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold/vivid/vibrant colour (=bright in a way that is exciting)
▪ His paintings are known for their use of bold colours.
a clear/vivid impression
▪ He had the clear impression that most people were in favour of the idea.
a vivid account (=so clear that it seems real or like real life)
▪ I read a vivid account of his experiences in Egypt.
a vivid dream (=very clear)
▪ In a vivid dream he saw a huge coloured bird flying above his head.
a vivid memory (=very clear and detailed)
▪ I have vivid memories of that summer.
a vivid metaphor (=one that gives you a picture in your mind)
▪ The book is full of vivid metaphors and powerful images.
a vivid picture (=very clear)
▪ Their diaries give us a vivid picture of their lives at the time.
a vivid reminder (=strong)
▪ Their performance was a vivid reminder of just why this band has remained so successful.
a vivid/fertile imagination (=an ability to think of a lot of ideas and things that could happen)
▪ She had a fertile imagination and a great sense of humour.
▪ With your vivid imagination, you should write a book.
vivid detail (=in such a way that they seem real)
▪ The three characters in the novel are described with vivid detail.
vivid (=very clear and interesting)
▪ The book contains some vivid descriptions of his childhood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Jack's round was not as vivid as the day before.
▪ To make your story as vivid as possible, include details such as names, dollar amounts, and ages when relevant.
▪ The pictures of her life yet to come were as vivid, and yet she could see no meaning in them.
▪ Gao Yang watched from a distance, and the scene was as vivid in his mind now as the day it happened.
▪ Its image of rampant eclecticism outside the house is quite as vivid as that offered by Lady Clavering's London interior.
less
▪ Memories grow less vivid, recent experiences are unshared, and imagined caresses across the kilometres become harder to conjure.
more
▪ The advantage will be smoother, more life-like, more in-depth games - and probably more vivid nightmares.
▪ It was more vivid than they had expected.
▪ The images were more vivid tonight, perhaps because of the coldness which had developed between him and Celia.
▪ The hypnotist-trainer helps athletes make their own images more vivid and certain.
▪ What is perhaps missing is that element of spontaneity which serves to project Haydn's originality in a more vivid manner.
▪ Repeat the steps above, trying to make it even more vivid than it was last time.
▪ Light and shade cohabit like life and death, the one more vivid for the dread presence of the other.
▪ And then there are the dreams, more vivid than the live-long day.
most
▪ We will pay £25 for the most vivid, moving or humorous memories.
▪ I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the mountains.
▪ It remains one of the most vivid and magical memories of my life.
▪ The early days are, in many ways, the most vivid.
▪ But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.
▪ Of all the eidetic images that remain from my childhood, frozen with crude representational accuracy, this is the most vivid.
▪ Some of the most vivid, lasting and controversial lessons were about political heavy-hitting.
so
▪ Their memories are so vivid and horrific that they wish to forget them.
▪ His portraits of Vancouver and Hong Kong ring true and are so vivid that I wanted to return to each.
▪ Which was probably why it was so vivid.
▪ These moments were so vivid, so powerful, that they over-rode the endless tedium and the despair.
▪ And the black and white is so vivid!
▪ The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend.
▪ But now, with the memory of her dream and his kiss so vivid, it was ten times worse.
too
▪ Tamar's description, to him and Elizabeth, had been too vivid for him ever to confuse it.
▪ A chicken with too vivid an imagination.
▪ A small scene, perhaps, but for some reason too vivid to be forgotten.
very
▪ I've got very vivid memories of that summer, about Abbotsfield and Carinish Court.
▪ But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.
▪ Dickens' characters are very vivid and memorable.
▪ When you are there the impression is one of a very warm and very vivid culture; there is a lot more humour.
■ NOUN
account
▪ Senior Labor politician Tony Benn has been publishing diary installments for decades, providing a vivid account of Parliament.
▪ You can enjoy an exhibition that gives a vivid account of the fugitive King's perilous adventures.
▪ Another Federal soldier who later penned a vivid account of the things he saw was sixteen-year-old John A.. Cockerill.
▪ David Thomson's vivid account of these goings-on, in Woodbrook, had aroused my curiosity.
colours
▪ Marine fish have such beautiful vivid colours and it is a pity not to display these to best advantage.
▪ Photographs taken with large telescopes are needed to bring out their vivid colours, and with binoculars they appear white and milky.
▪ Subtlety of shade is another key to the use of more vivid colours.
▪ Follow the given preparation and cooking order correctly for the best flavour and beautiful vivid colours.
▪ Which shades of green blend best with each other, with pale colours, with vivid colours?
▪ Sandy Powell's designs for Kate employ vivid colours, often linked with the decor.
description
▪ In Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner there is a vivid description of such a situation.
▪ If a story was written skillfully enough to include vivid descriptions, Louisa pictured them in her mind.
▪ Though there is plenty of period detail and vivid description, the effect is at the same time oddly weightless.
▪ I thought of the vivid description with which Omar had burdened my memory.
detail
▪ The moving image has immediacy and can offer vivid detail.
▪ I recall her bum, though, in vivid detail.
▪ The Barthelmes recount in vivid detail and with good psychological insight the trauma of coping with that dual loss.
dream
▪ This is a normal vivid dream state and is a natural activity of the brain.
▪ I love the company and I have vivid dreams as I see others appreciating the beauty of this land, too.
▪ As his sleep problem developed, he could only manage two or three hours of sleep, frequently disturbed by vivid dreams.
▪ But one night I had a vivid dream of her, that she had died.
example
▪ Noble has suggested that this represents a vivid example of social choice in machine design.
▪ A vivid example of this combination of learning and performance is Electronic Campus, which grew out of research at Apple Computer.
▪ Equally parliamentarians spoke of cruelty, inhumanity and tyranny as features of the slave trade and slavery, often providing vivid examples.
▪ The debate over health care reform in 1993-94 offers a vivid example.
▪ The effect of contrast and seeming absurdity is revealed in vivid examples.
▪ The cases, crafted and written by the executives themselves, become vivid examples of skilled incompetence.
▪ Perhaps this is one of the most vivid examples we have of the effect of the pictorial image on the medieval mind.
illustration
▪ The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration.
▪ The special includes vivid illustrations of the impact meteors have had in the past and what could happen in the future.
▪ But there is another vivid illustration of the discrimination practised by the Labour Party against people who live in the province.
▪ Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
▪ Try to find a vivid illustration of your theme to start off your talk.
▪ The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770.
▪ The Star's fuller reports gave a vivid illustration of two starkly contrasting versions of the same incident.
image
▪ The radio waves, magnetic field and computer technology combine to produce vivid images of the body's soft tissue.
▪ Afterwards, people remembered nothing of what the president said, but retained a vivid image of what he wore.
▪ Rachel's hands were white-knuckled on the window-sill as she pictured it, vivid images burning into her mind.
▪ Hypnagogic experiences, as they are called, are characterized by a series of relatively disconnected but vivid images.
imagination
▪ Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination, you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt.
▪ The Yippies were armed with a vivid imagination to match their rhetoric.
▪ Although he'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination, Charlie saw it all in an instant.
▪ Mark deployed his vivid imagination in a wild-child narrative to create a boy who hunts deer, bears, and birds.
▪ With her vivid imagination, Melissa could visualise the scene and it sickened her.
▪ Her vivid imagination created some one tall and slim, blonde and attractive.
memory
▪ I've got very vivid memories of that summer, about Abbotsfield and Carinish Court.
▪ Meanwhile, those who observed the jumbo jet exploding say they still have vivid memories.
▪ I have a vivid memory of her descending the stairs to the conservatory where we said our vows.
▪ Jack Russell's painting inspires vivid memories of that moment of discovery.
▪ He has vivid memories of how it feels to lose your job.
▪ As an employer of labour, I have vivid memories of that time.
picture
▪ But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.
▪ Nice vivid pictures, despite working on old computers.
▪ He also describes vivid pictures with extreme detail and.
▪ Her imagination conjured up an erotically vivid picture and she knew a hectic flush had risen to her cheeks.
▪ But he had a vivid picture of her in his mind, lean and hungry in her scarlet bathing suit.
▪ Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
▪ He painted a vivid picture of apprehension and tiredness.
reminder
▪ His ebullient personality is a vivid reminder of the polymath of past times.
▪ It was a vivid reminder that descending the water column in a submarine is an unnatural act.
▪ This is a vivid reminder of the significant social effects of Government planning guidance.
▪ It was a vivid reminder of the stark difference between Washington news and real-world news.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a vivid blue sky
▪ a vivid red cape
▪ a cloud of vivid yellow butterflies
▪ I loved listening to his vivid descriptions of life in Italy.
▪ Include details to make your story as vivid as possible.
▪ One of my most vivid memories is of my first day at school.
▪ The book gives a vivid account of the author's journey through northern Africa.
▪ The drug can make people suffer hallucinations and vivid nightmares.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London, brilliantly catching its degradation and waste.
▪ Repeat the steps above, trying to make it even more vivid than it was last time.
▪ She could see nothing except a vivid scarlet blur, the colour of a London bus.
▪ The bright exposure of a vivid blue patch alarms the attacker and may save the lizard's life.
▪ Yet decades earlier, readers had already gotten a vivid fictionalized look at the inner earth from another science-fiction author.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
vivid

vivid \viv"id\ (v[i^]v"[i^]d), 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. [1913 Webster] -- viv"id*ly, adv. -- viv"id*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vivid

1630s, from French vivide and perhaps also directly from Latin vividus "spirited, animated, lively, full of life," from vivus "alive," from PIE *gweie- (1) "to live" (see bio-). Extension to colors is from 1660s. Sense of "strong, distinct" (as of memories, etc.) is from 1680s; that of "very active or intense" (as of imagination, interest, etc.) is from 1853. Related: Vividly; vividness.

Wiktionary
vivid

a. 1 (context of perception English) clear, detailed or powerful. 2 (context of an image English) bright, intense or colourful. n. (context New Zealand English) A felt-tipped permanent marker.

WordNet
vivid

  1. adj. 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]

Wikipedia
Vivid (Living Colour album)

Vivid is the debut studio album by the American rock band Living Colour, released on May 3, 1988 through Epic Records. It was one of the most popular albums of 1988, reaching No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and certified double platinum by the RIAA.

Vivid

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Vivid (song)

"Vivid" is a song by Electronic, the eighth single released by the group. It was released in April 1999 by Parlophone in Britain and by Virgin in Germany. "Vivid" reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart.

Vivid (media arts)

VIVID was a centre for the production and exhibition of media art, located in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, England. The company began trading as 'VIVID' in the late 1990s, but was established as Birmingham Centre for Media Arts in 1992, when TURC Video amalgamated with the community arts organisation Wide Angle. The conjunction of the two entities created a hybrid resource unique in Birmingham: a film, video and photography workshop creating community access to what at the time was the dominant means of visual communications. Popularly known in the 90s as 'BCMA', the centre adopted the name 'VIVID' following a re-location to The Big Peg in Birmingham's jewellery quarter and began several years of digital image making, digital video training and artist development. From 2000 'VIVID' concentrated on developing contemporary new media and artist moving image through production, commissioning, exhibition and event programmes.

The organisation moved to its final home - a former motor garage built in the 1950s - from its previous location in the Jewellery Quarter in April 2005. Renovation of thelarge MOT garage in order to provide an exhibition and events programme alongside artist production created a flexible, multi-purpose space for Digbeth - the first in the area.

VIVID commissioned and exhibited work both for its own exhibition space and for other locations, provided spaces and resources for the production of interdisciplinary art and hosted a programme of residencies for visiting artists commissioned major new works and large scale touring exhibitions from artists including Haroon Mirza, Richard Billingham, Heather & Ivan Morison and exhibited artists from 1960 Fluxus movement to rising art stars. 2008/11 generated 27 international residencies and exhibitions with VIVID commissions presented at the Venice Biennale, Frieze Art Fair, The Art of Ideas and British Art Show 7; and touring to London and Gothenburg.

VIVID's main exhibition space, called The Garage, occupied and still bore the evidence of its former use as a vehicle repair workshop, including a large area marked " MOT Bay".

VIVID produced and curated emerging and mid-career artists and presented their work in local, national and international contexts. Described in The Guardian as 'superb' the critically acclaimed public programme presented a wide variety of new commissions, thematic shows, talks, screenings and pop up events year round.

After failing to win Arts Council funding VIVID closed in 2012 http://www.actsofmemory.net/recitations-to-date/act-41-vivid-birmingham/ . Vivid Projects was started soon after by the VIVID curatorial team and is based at Minerva Works in Digbeth. http://new.a-n.co.uk/news/single/vivid-projects-how-long-will-they-last

Vivid (band)

Vivid (stylized as ViViD) was a five-member Japanese visual kei rock band from Tokyo. The band was formed in March 2009 and is currently signed with Sony Music Japan's Epic Records Japan label. Vivid had announced on Jan 28, 2015, that they will be disbanding after the last stop of their final tour in April.

Vivid (Crystal Kay album)

Vivid is the tenth Japanese language studio album (12th overall) by Japanese singer-songwriter Crystal Kay. This is her first album since her 2010 release Spin the Music. Also, this is her first album to be released under her new record label Universal after she left her long-time label Sony Music Japan in 2011.

Vivid (Vivian Green album)

Vivid is the fifth studio album by American contemporary R&B singer Vivian Green, released August 7, 2015. It is Green's first album released on Kwamé's record label Make Noise Records (which is distributed via Caroline Records); and was produced by Kwamé. As of November 2015, the album has not charted on the Billboard 200 but has reached #10 on the Billboard R&B chart.

The album's first single is "Get Right Back to My Baby", which has reached number eight on the U.S. Adult R&B chart.

Vivid (Ailee album)

Vivid is the first full-length studio album by South Korean singer Ailee. It was released on September 30, 2015 by YMC Entertainment.

Usage examples of "vivid".

The people hauled in to testify about why they voted absentee offered a vivid picture of the fierce loyalties, rough politics, and economic pressures that shaped the lives of Arkansas hill people.

The chief secret, however, of the origin of the peculiar phrases under consideration consisted in their striking fitness to the nature and facts of the case, their adaptedness to express these facts in a bold and vivid manner.

The reason was simple: Radio is the most visual medium available to advertisers since radio commercials have the best opportunity to create vivid imagery in the minds of the consumer.

Danlo his love of ahimsa, his marvellous will, his deep, vivid eyes was urging the warrior-poet into life.

Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomaea, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.

He wore a black slouch hat, a black sateen shirt, a vivid red bandanna handkerchief, blue serge pants and a pair of scuffed brown oxfords.

Far beneath was a block of gray, its center a sparking square: Chandos Castle, its glass-topped courtyard vivid as a diamond in a baser setting!

He rubbed the engraved opal that was the bezel of the ring and it began to glow like a brightening ember, smoky crimson shot with livid green at first, then kindling to a vivid scarlet.

Her eyes were a vivid green, but die color could easily have been a bimolecular overlay.

Her eyes were a vivid green, but the color could easily have been a bimolecular overlay.

He had not been inside a theatre for years, and the vivid description that Mr Buskin had given him of the show he was about to witness filled him with pleasurable anticipation.

Others shaded with vivid calcareous reflections resembled a perfect town of marble.

But the often cheaper and always more vivid newspapers that have come with the New Democracy do nothing to mould opinion.

It was a chuckwalla, a long, slim, greenish-bronze reptile, covered with wonderful spots of vivid colour, and with eyes like jewels.

A vivid cicatrix seamed his right cheek from near the corner of his eye to the corner of his narrow, cruel mouth.