[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

vivid \viv"id\ vi^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.
      1913 webster

            in dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
                                                  --cowper.
      1913 webster

            arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
            painting, the human face and human form divine.
                                                  --bp. hobart.
      1913 webster

   2. forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
      lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
      1913 webster

            body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
            faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --south.
      1913 webster

   syn: clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
        sprightly; active.
        1913 webster -- viv"idly, adv. -- viv"idness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
quick revive viand victuals vital viv"idly 
viv"idness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
graphic lifelike pictorial bright brilliant intense 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

174 moby thesaurus words for "vivid":
   active, acute, aggressive, agog, alacritous, alive, all agog,
   animate, animated, anxious, apish, avid, bedazzling, blinding,
   brave, breathless, bright, bright and shining, bright-hued,
   brilliant, brisk, burning, bursting to, clear, colorful, colory,
   creative, dazzling, deep-colored, delineative, delineatory,
   depictive, descriptive, desirous, detailed, distinct, dramatic,
   dynamic, eager, echoic, effulgent, eidetic, eloquent, embodying,
   enduring, energetic, enliven, enterprising, enthusiastic, excite,
   excruciating, exotic, expositive, expressive, exquisite, extreme,
   faithful, fecund, fertile, figurative, flamboyant, flaming,
   forceful, forcible, forward, fresh, fruitful, fulgent, fulgid,
   full of life, full of pep, galvanize, garish, gay, gay-colored,
   give life to, glaring, glary, glowing, go-go, gorgeous, graphic,
   green, hearty, high-colored, ideographic, illustrational,
   illustrative, imaginative, imitative, impatient, impetuous,
   incarnating, incisive, intense, inventive, keen,
   kept in remembrance, kinetic, lasting, lifelike, limning, lively,
   liven, living, lucid, lusty, meaningful, memorable, mettlesome,
   mimetic, mimish, naturalistic, onomatopoeic, panting, peppy,
   personifying, photographic, pictographic, pictorial, picturesque,
   poignant, powerful, prolific, quick, raring to, ready,
   ready and willing, realistic, recalled, recollected, refresh,
   refulgent, remembered, renew, representational, representative,
   representing, resplendent, restore, retained, rich, rich-colored,
   robust, sharp, simulative, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited,
   splendent, splendid, splendorous, strenuous, striking, strong,
   suggestive, symbolizing, take-charge, take-over, theatrical,
   trenchant, true to life, typifying, unforgotten, vibrant, vigorous,
   vital, vivacious, vivify, well-drawn, zestful, zesty, zippy

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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
     
     
see also:
constraint 

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