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单词 vivid
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Definition of vivid in English:

vivid

adjective ˈvɪvɪdˈvɪvɪd
  • 1Producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.

    生动的,逼真的

    memories of that evening were still vivid

    那个晚上的情景还记忆犹新。

    a vivid description

    栩栩如生的描绘。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His images created by the vivid description of desert life and earthly love scenes were never excelled by later lyricists.
    • It's also notable that Wright leaves a far more vivid and haunting image in your mind.
    • My eyes shot open, the image of concrete inches from my face still vivid in my mind.
    • A clear and vivid mental picture must always precede the actual picture on paper.
    • Trent's words from the night before were still fresh in her mind, painting vivid pictures.
    • New moving images may become as vivid and powerful as traumatic memories in the mind of a child survivor.
    • Drop the unoriginal, vanilla stories and go for the ones that leave a strong, vivid impression.
    • The descriptions were so vivid she could almost picture the races that he spoke of.
    • Kat woke up with a start, the images from the previous night's dreams still vivid in her mind.
    • The images were still vivid in her mind, as if she were watching a scene of a movie over and over again.
    • Kit could feel the anger coursing through his mind and everything was vivid and clear.
    • The details of that day were so vivid in Adam's mind that it seemed like it had happened only yesterday.
    • Some of his set pieces can conjure a more vivid image in the mind's eye than the surviving works of art themselves.
    • The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
    • The images, sounds and feelings are so vivid that the mind can't distinguish between reality and imagination.
    • She had another terrible nightmare and could not shake the vivid images from her mind.
    • When people hear the name Titanic many vivid and emotional images come to mind.
    • My mind has a vivid picture of it. do, since it happens in the blink of an eye.
    • And most of us do that, providing our readers with vivid images and resonant sounds.
    • The image of his death remains a vivid picture in my mind that I often replay today.
    Synonyms
    graphic, evocative, realistic, true to life, lifelike, faithful, authentic, clear, crystal clear, detailed, lucid, striking, arresting, impressive, colourful, highly coloured, rich, dramatic, picturesque, lively, stimulating, interesting, fascinating, scintillating
    memorable, unforgettable, powerful, stirring, affecting, emotive, moving, haunting
  • 2(of a colour) intensely deep or bright.

    (色彩)浓重的;鲜艳的

    the rhododendron bush provides a vivid splash of mauve
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The quest was for good, strong geraniums to go in a big planter by the front door and give us a dash of vivid colour right through the summer and on into the autumn.
    • His pieces are bright, luminous and painted in vivid colours.
    • I simply cannot resist going back to enjoy their vivid colours and sturdy growth.
    • Of course, its vivid colours are depicted, but also the grimy greys and blacks of modern urban Spain.
    • Most of these murals are very well preserved, and still bear most of their features and their vivid colours.
    • Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
    • We experience colour as feelings, and vivid colours can make you feel sassy, wild and energised.
    • You don't have to cross the Atlantic to enjoy vivid colours.
    • At the time, I liked big, single blooms with vivid colours, but now I've rather gone off them.
    • Colours are vivid and symbolic, including rich purple parchment and gold lettering.
    • Walk this soon just for the heather and don't much worry about the weather because the colour is more vivid under a dull sky.
    • The only vivid colour was in the bays where waterlilies flowered.
    • These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer next year.
    • The display is great-very large, as you can see, with a bright backlight and vivid colour.
    • Sweet peas, busy Lizzies, pansies and marigolds are bringing vivid colours to a location which is on the brink of massive investment.
    • Beetroot is also great for making soup and can be sliced, diced or grated to add vivid colour to salads.
    • The deep, vivid colours make angels landing by silence much more than just another flower picture.
    • These will be in keeping with the dark, vivid colours within the store which includes deep reds and olive greens.
    • I have enjoyed painting in vivid colour for years now - the colours work on the psyche.
    • Fluorescent colours are vivid and eye-catching, even from a distance, because of special pigment used in the dyes.
    Synonyms
    bright, bright-coloured, colourful, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vibrant, strong, bold, deep, intense, rich, warm, flaming, flamboyant, glaring, eye-catching
    informal jazzy
  • 3archaic (of a person or animal) lively and vigorous.

    〈古〉(人,动物)活跃的;充满活力的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His innocent boyish face suggests a young, vivid child, a likeable person.
    • The question is whether the author can live up to the vivid characters and style of the first book.
    • Fisk is a garlanded, dynamic, vivid reporter, one of the best in the world.
    • He's a vivid character - a mystery that we as readers want to have solved but never can.
    • Bristling with vivid characters, they give an electrifying glimpse into an unknown world.
    Synonyms
    dynamic, flamboyant, striking, strong, powerful, fiery, lively, animated, spirited, vibrant, vital, vigorous, energetic, vivacious, zestful

Derivatives

  • vividness

  • nounˈvɪvɪdnəs
    • In recent years, a homesickness for myth - for the sensuality and vividness that ‘history’ discards - has inspired a renaissance of poem as narrative.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I do however remember with all the hot vividness of adolescent self-consciousness that, as soon as I had money to buy my own clothes, I learned to appreciate a good cut and quality material.
      • Partly it is the vividness of it - the great, gleaming engines with their clanking levers and hissing gouts of steam, and the almost vaudevillian cast of characters.
      • The vividness of the dream suggests this is more than mere ‘tiredness’ but is an actual loss of your vitality.
      • Though she describes herself as ‘not very well educated’, there is that vividness of her imagination, the way she seems to see in intense colours.
      • The dances are full of vividness and freedom and arm motion.
      • It is also a limited work, cartoonish, narrow, raucous, too often mistaking noise for vividness.
      • It would be a work of closely observed non-fiction written with all the commitment and vividness of a novel.
      • The scenarios are highlighted with italics and read with the immediacy of vividness of the morning paper.
      • Behind his jollity and vividness, lay a cold, dark interior, hidden to all.
      • I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now.
      • The astonishing events made many Americans recognize with a new vividness the nation itself as part of their circle of concern.
      • Regarded simply on its literary merits, there is nothing I know of to excel it in vividness, in pathos, in a burning earnestness, in a glow of conviction that fires from the heart to the heart.
      • Click on something, and you get more information on it - a flashback of varying clarity and vividness of how you've related to it in the past.
      • I closed my eyes against their purple vividness to listen.
      • As we will see, his works display an acute awareness of human faults and frailties and his writing exhibits a vividness and an elegance that makes it a pleasure to read.
      • Its inhabitants' manners and mores are documented with eyewitness vividness.
      • It also has a vividness and directness not usually associated with paintings worked up from sketches and photographs.
      • Carter's approach repeatedly makes for greater vividness.
      • Glasgow's industry also had a peculiar vividness, which is retained by such of that industry as remains.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin vividus, from vivere 'to live'.

Rhymes

livid

Definition of vivid in US English:

vivid

adjectiveˈvividˈvɪvɪd
  • 1Producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.

    生动的,逼真的

    memories of that evening were still vivid

    那个晚上的情景还记忆犹新。

    a vivid description

    栩栩如生的描绘。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When people hear the name Titanic many vivid and emotional images come to mind.
    • Some of his set pieces can conjure a more vivid image in the mind's eye than the surviving works of art themselves.
    • Kit could feel the anger coursing through his mind and everything was vivid and clear.
    • A clear and vivid mental picture must always precede the actual picture on paper.
    • The images, sounds and feelings are so vivid that the mind can't distinguish between reality and imagination.
    • The descriptions were so vivid she could almost picture the races that he spoke of.
    • My mind has a vivid picture of it. do, since it happens in the blink of an eye.
    • It's also notable that Wright leaves a far more vivid and haunting image in your mind.
    • The image of his death remains a vivid picture in my mind that I often replay today.
    • Trent's words from the night before were still fresh in her mind, painting vivid pictures.
    • And most of us do that, providing our readers with vivid images and resonant sounds.
    • Kat woke up with a start, the images from the previous night's dreams still vivid in her mind.
    • The images were still vivid in her mind, as if she were watching a scene of a movie over and over again.
    • New moving images may become as vivid and powerful as traumatic memories in the mind of a child survivor.
    • The details of that day were so vivid in Adam's mind that it seemed like it had happened only yesterday.
    • The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
    • His images created by the vivid description of desert life and earthly love scenes were never excelled by later lyricists.
    • My eyes shot open, the image of concrete inches from my face still vivid in my mind.
    • Drop the unoriginal, vanilla stories and go for the ones that leave a strong, vivid impression.
    • She had another terrible nightmare and could not shake the vivid images from her mind.
    Synonyms
    graphic, evocative, realistic, true to life, lifelike, faithful, authentic, clear, crystal clear, detailed, lucid, striking, arresting, impressive, colourful, highly coloured, rich, dramatic, picturesque, lively, stimulating, interesting, fascinating, scintillating
  • 2(of a color) intensely deep or bright.

    (色彩)浓重的;鲜艳的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The display is great-very large, as you can see, with a bright backlight and vivid colour.
    • I simply cannot resist going back to enjoy their vivid colours and sturdy growth.
    • Fluorescent colours are vivid and eye-catching, even from a distance, because of special pigment used in the dyes.
    • Walk this soon just for the heather and don't much worry about the weather because the colour is more vivid under a dull sky.
    • Colours are vivid and symbolic, including rich purple parchment and gold lettering.
    • I have enjoyed painting in vivid colour for years now - the colours work on the psyche.
    • His pieces are bright, luminous and painted in vivid colours.
    • Beetroot is also great for making soup and can be sliced, diced or grated to add vivid colour to salads.
    • Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
    • Sweet peas, busy Lizzies, pansies and marigolds are bringing vivid colours to a location which is on the brink of massive investment.
    • Of course, its vivid colours are depicted, but also the grimy greys and blacks of modern urban Spain.
    • The deep, vivid colours make angels landing by silence much more than just another flower picture.
    • You don't have to cross the Atlantic to enjoy vivid colours.
    • The only vivid colour was in the bays where waterlilies flowered.
    • We experience colour as feelings, and vivid colours can make you feel sassy, wild and energised.
    • Most of these murals are very well preserved, and still bear most of their features and their vivid colours.
    • These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer next year.
    • At the time, I liked big, single blooms with vivid colours, but now I've rather gone off them.
    • The quest was for good, strong geraniums to go in a big planter by the front door and give us a dash of vivid colour right through the summer and on into the autumn.
    • These will be in keeping with the dark, vivid colours within the store which includes deep reds and olive greens.
    Synonyms
    bright, bright-coloured, colourful, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vibrant, strong, bold, deep, intense, rich, warm, flaming, flamboyant, glaring, eye-catching
  • 3archaic (of a person or animal) lively and vigorous.

    〈古〉(人,动物)活跃的;充满活力的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The question is whether the author can live up to the vivid characters and style of the first book.
    • He's a vivid character - a mystery that we as readers want to have solved but never can.
    • His innocent boyish face suggests a young, vivid child, a likeable person.
    • Bristling with vivid characters, they give an electrifying glimpse into an unknown world.
    • Fisk is a garlanded, dynamic, vivid reporter, one of the best in the world.
    Synonyms
    dynamic, flamboyant, striking, strong, powerful, fiery, lively, animated, spirited, vibrant, vital, vigorous, energetic, vivacious, zestful

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin vividus, from vivere ‘to live’.

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