noun
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A felt-tipped permanent marker.
adjective
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(of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.
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(of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.
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Full of life, strikingly alive.
Examples of vivid in a Sentence
The woman has a vivid imagination.
It was a very vivid dream.
Not that she could deny a vivid imagination.
Victor Cousin has devoted four volumes to her, which, though immensely diffuse, give a vivid picture of her time.
Only those touched by fate had such vivid memories that entered her mind unbidden.
Beyond the pond was a vivid green line of brush and trees, bordering the creek.
It is a vivid green and has large, fleshy, heart-shaped leaves.
For two years he acted as manager of his father's bank, and in 1830 was inducted to his first charge, Arbirlot, in Forfarshire, where he adopted a vivid dramatic style of preaching adapted to his congregation of peasants, farmers and weavers.
My most vivid recollection of that summer is the ocean.
Visions slammed into her, each one as vivid as the next, the sights, smells, sounds.
Did you read this somewhere or do you just have a vivid imagination?
His poems are his best work, and afford us a vivid picture of the times.
You just had a vivid dream yourself!
He was a man of vivid, but disordered, imagination, without possessing any conception of statesmanship. In 1887 a statue of the tribune was erected at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
As soon as she heard his voice a vivid glow kindled in her face, lighting up both her sorrow and her joy.
The ultra sound photo brought back a vivid memory of Alex watching the screen as the baby moved in her womb.
He now entered, unaided save by his own unerring tact and vivid apprehension, upon a course of study which, in two years, placed him on a level with the greatest of his contemporaries.
Of this we have a vivid example in the episode 2 Kings xviii.
His journals, which were written for his family and intimate friends, give a singularly interesting and vivid picture of life in Paris in the time of the directory.
His power lies chiefly in the clear grasp of fact, in selection and synthesis, in the vivid narration of incident.
Cases of collision have been tried in it (the "Vivid," 1 Asp. Maritime Law Cases, 601).
They say those trips are super vivid.
The few remaining fragments produce the impression of vivid and rapid narrative, to which the flow of the native Saturnian verse, in contradistinction to the weighty and complex structure of the hexameter, was naturally adapted.
It is a valuable historical document, and contains a singularly vivid account of an interview with Napoleon.
Thanks to the Spade propensity for designs that run the gamut from neutral stripes to vivid paisleys, there's something for everyone in the eclectic mix.
The sun-dried canvas totes come in a variety of patterns, such as stripes in vivid blues.
Beyond the vivid color selection of hot pink, light blue and bright red, you'll also find more distinctive looks like that of the Elvis Presley Signature Travel Backpack.
You can purchase the bag in vivid yellow, deep red, medium blue, black, navy and tan.
The scene played over and over in her thoughts, growing stronger until he was as vivid during daylight as he had been at night.
His style is clear and vivid; his method of describing what he sees extraordinarily plastic; above all, he has the art of presenting objects to us from their most interesting and attractive side.
All conceptions which do not possess these two attributes - of being vivid in themselves and discriminated from all others - cannot be true.
When he cries "Rain, rain," or otherwise makes vivid to himself and his hearers the idea of rain, expecting that the rain will thereby be forced to come, it is as if he had said "Rain, now you must come," or simply "Rain, come!"
It blots out much supposed knowledge, but throws a vivid and interesting light on the reconstrued process of history.
He travelled much in North Africa, Mexico and South America, and wrote a number of short stories and vivid studies of life in those regions.
So far he is in general agreement with Anaximander, but he differs from him in the solution of the problem, disliking, as a poet and a mystic, the primary matter which satisfied the patient researcher, and demanding a more vivid and picturesque element.
The most vivid portraiture of Sheol is to be found in the exilian passage Isa.
Some took root in the strange lands, and, as later popular stories indicate, evidently reached high positions; others, retaining a more vivid tradition of the land of their fathers, cherished the ideal of a restored Jerusalem.
Having satisfied himself of the extent of the ruins, he aroused the people to the necessity of fortifying and repopulating the city, and a vivid account is given in his name of the many dangers which beset the rebuilding of the walls.
Of this kind of retribution Scott in The Abbot gives a vivid picture, the Protestants interrupting the mass celebrated by the trembling remnant of the monks in the ruined abbey church, and insisting on substituting the traditional Feast of Fools.
While we have elsewhere no connected account of this, Justin's Apology contains a few paragraphs (61 seq.), which give a vivid description of the public worship of the Church and its method of celebrating the sacraments (Baptism and the Eucharist).
It is certainly Wesley's most picturesque biography and the most vivid account of the evangelical revival that we possess.
If the gas be mixed with the vapour of carbon disulphide, the mixture burns with a vivid lavender-coloured flame Nitric oxide is soluble in solutions of ferrous salts, a dark brown solution being formed, which is readily decomposed by heat, with evolution of nitric oxide.
There was some revival of the art of the sermon at Versailles a century later, where the Abbe Maury, whose critical work has been mentioned above, preached with vivid eloquence between 1770 and 1785; the Pere Elisee (1726-1783), whom Diderot and Mme Roland greatly admired, held a similar place, at the same time, in Paris.
A charming style, a vivid fancy, exhaustive research, were not to be expected from a hard-worked barrister; but he must certainly be held responsible for the frequent plagiarisms, the still more frequent inaccuracies of detail, the colossal vanity which obtrudes on almost every page,'the hasty insinuations against the memory of the great departed who were to him as giants, and the petty sneers which he condescends to print against his own contemporaries, with whom he was living from day to day on terms of apparently sincere friendship.
The borders of the garment are painted with geometrical patterns in vivid colours; a broad stripe of ornament runs down the centre of the skirt.'
Watery solution of iodine imparts to it a deep mahogany-brown colour; iodine and sulphuric acid occasionally, but not always, an azure-blue, methylviolet, a brilliant rose-pink and methyl-green gives a reaction very much like that of methyl-violet, but not so vivid.
Dr Jessopp gives a vivid picture of what occurred when King Edward III.
At the same time, some of the Greek legends seem to show that peoples, with whom the Greeks came into early contact, had vivid memories of the Hatti.
The CornLaw Rhymes (3rd ed., 1831), inspired by a fierce hatred of injustice, are vigorous, simple and full of vivid description.
In retirement she could devote herself wholly to art and science, and the opportunity of astonishing the world by the unique spectacle of a great queen, in the prime of life, voluntarily resigning her crown, strongly appealed to her vivid imagination.