vivid

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}, {vivid}]
    2: having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a
       vivid recollection"
    3: having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant
       tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: {bright},
       {brilliant}, {vivid}]
    4: (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green";
       "intense blue" [syn: {intense}, {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.
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            In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
                                                  --Cowper.
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            Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
            painting, the human face and human form divine.
                                                  --Bp. Hobart.
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   2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
      lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
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            Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
            faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --South.
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   Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
        sprightly; active.
        [1913 Webster] -- {viv"id*ly}, adv. -- {viv"id*ness}, n.
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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)
    

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