vivid
Meaning
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- Clear, detailed or powerful.
- Bright, intense or colourful.
- Full of life, strikingly alive.
Synonyms
poignant
resplendant
resplendent beauty
image-bearing
devil’s own
high-intensity
full of life
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɪvɪd/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”). The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand.
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