VIVID

intense, vivid

(adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation; “vivid green”; “intense blue”

bright, brilliant, vivid

(adjective) having strong or striking color; “bright dress”; “brilliant tapestries”; “a bird with vivid plumage”

vivid

(adjective) having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; “a vivid recollection”

graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid

(adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind; “pictorial poetry and prose”; “graphic accounts of battle”; “a lifelike portrait”; “a vivid description”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

vivid (comparative vivider, )

(of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.

(of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.

Full of life, strikingly alive.

Noun

vivid (plural vivids)

(New Zealand) A felt-tipped permanent marker.

Source: Wiktionary


Viv"id, a. Etym: [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.

– Viv"id*ly, adv.

– Viv"id*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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23 January 2025

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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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