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vividly

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.

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vividly

adv. In a vivid manner.

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vividly

adv. in a vivid manner; "he described his adventures vividly"

Usage examples of "vividly".

In the experience of earnest Christians, a personal belief in the resurrection of Christ, vividly conceived in the imagination and taken home to the heart, is chiefly effective in its spiritual, not in its argumentative, results.

He found himself wondering if during a flash flood on this spectacularly tinted world, the riverbeds would run bright with dissolved azurite and other vividly colored copper minerals.

Linden remembered vividly those who had accompanied the Search for the One Tree, Brinn and Cail among them.

It reminded me too vividly of the project for which Chubby and I had found it necessary to lay in large stocks of high explosive.

Still wearing his vividly striped pyjamas, Chubby lowered his massive hams into the sea.

He was recalling the enflaming curve of waist into hip and imagining quite vividly how it would feel to run his hands along that beautiful line before he crushed her against him.

A flash, and it came out vividly, heeling over one way with two feet in the air, to vanish and reappear almost instantly as it seemed, with the next flash, a hundred yards nearer.

I hope you will remember my small show of compassion today, as vividly as you may remember any of my occasional humbugs and hoaxes, fobberies and fooleries.

Cyrus Harding and his companions remained for a time silent, for they were vividly impressed by what they had just seen and heard, and their hearts were deeply touched by the thought that he whose arm had so often aided them, the protector whom they had known but a few hours, was at the point of death.

I remember vividly from the night I introduced you to the Maharanee of wherever she was from.

Melancholy, I might see more vividly his all-too-earthly connections with Macclesfield and Chesterfield, and beyond them, looming in the mephitic Stench, Newcastle and Mr.

I dream again and in this dream I see the past as Nala might, more vividly than I ever have before.

He could imagine far too vividly the police bursting into the house on Paseo Delicias and arresting everybody in sight, and condemning Celia for ever to that strange grey-faced state in which he had seen her last night.

We caught the train by the skin of our teeth, as the saying is, and reflecting upon the events of the morning, as we sat gasping in the carriage, there passed vividly before my mind the panorama of my Uncle Podger, as on two hundred and fifty days in the year he would start from Ealing Common by the nine-thirteen train to Moorgate Street.

Her head was vividly defined among the flowers which poetized the brown and crumbling sills of her casement windows with their leaded panes.