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vivid, a.|ˈvɪvɪd|
[ad. L. vīvid-us living, animated, lively, f. vīvĕre to live. Cf. It. vivido.]
1. Full of life; vigorous, active, or energetic on this account; lively or brisk:
a. Of persons (or animals), their attributes, etc.
1638Jackson Creed ix. xxix. §2 In my old and decaying days to publish the fruits of my former labours in these mysteries which to my apprehension had been well set in my flourishing and vivid years. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 80 His whole body was vivid and strong. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 254 They have a sprightly vivid countenance. 1799Corry Sat. Lond. (1803) 45 When the fine lady returns home fatigued after a succession of important morning visits and the exhaustion of her vivid spirits. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1871) II. 13 Mr. Browning was..a most vivid and quick-thoughted person. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxv, Mr. Vandernoodt,..as good a foil as could well be found to the intense colouring and vivid gravity of Deronda. 1878Browning Poets Croisic clix, His hope be in the vivid horse Whose neck God clothed with thunder.
fig.1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 234 Let sweet fragrance flow from thee, Vivid breath of pure emotion.
b. Of material things or substances, or their qualities.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 230 The vertue that was ordained to be in that matter, cannot be so vivid and effectual. 1670W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 99 Elementary fire..produced from a vivid nitrous or hermetick salt. 1818Busby Gram. Mus. 481 This vivid and volatile instrument [sc. the violin]. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa Introd. 6 Things emitting at unexpectedly short notice vivid and awful stenches.
c. Of feelings, etc.: Lively, strong, intense.
1853C. Brontë Villette xix, His passions were strong, his aversions and attachments alike vivid. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xi. (1860) 366 We might have remained in this same belief, had not Agassiz and others called vivid attention to the Glacial period. 1860W. Collins Wom. White i. narr. W. H. vi, Her face expressed vivid interest and astonishment, nothing more. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible i. (1875) 35 The first is clearly proved by..the vivid indignation he evoked. 1905G. Thorne Lost Cause viii, There is a sterling and vivid Christianity among them.
2. a. Of actions or operations: Proceeding, or taking place, with great vigour or activity.
1702Rouse's Heav. Univ. Adv. 2 More vivid Operations of the Internal Light of souls. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 472 The combustion that ensues is exceedingly vivid and beautiful. 1842A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 4) 257 Whenever any living part is called into vivid action, an increased flow of blood and of nervous energy towards it immediately commences. 1858Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Phil. 392 A thin cylinder of oily vapour..is kept in a state of vivid and constant combustion.
b. Of utterances: Strongly or warmly expressed.
1806J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (ed. 3) vi. xiii, Being mounted on a beast who..proceeds very coolly to repose himself in the middle of the pond without..paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrances on the subject. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) III. x. 10 The Spanish government..made the most vivid remonstrances through its resident minister. 1981Observer 15 Nov. 2/8 The famous are shown off⁓guard—for example,..Sue Lawley using vivid language.
c. Of intellectual faculties: Capable of ready and clear creation of ideas or concepts.
1814Scott Wav. iii, Edward's power of imagination..was vivid. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. I. 14 Vivid conception, and keen sensibility, will not of themselves make a good actor. 1863Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 318 Every page teems with the vivid thought, the glowing fancy [etc.]. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay i, I suspect your fancy is tolerably vivid still.
d. Of description, etc.: Presenting subjects or ideas in a clear and striking manner. Freq. with picture in fig. use.
(a)1837Lockhart Scott IV. v. 157, I mean especially a power of vivid painting—the true and primary sense of what is called Imagination. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel vi. 339 Nehemiah himself relates,..in one consecutive vivid narrative, the history of the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. iv. 149 A most vivid history of the time. 1872Lowell Milton Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 72 Mr. Masson's unhappy infection with the vivid style. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiii. 296 We have..a no less vivid report of the real or imaginary speeches.
(b)1847Grote Greece ii. xvii. III. 320 It is not from them however that Herodotus draws his vivid picture of the people, with their inhuman rites and repulsive personal features. 1879Froude Cæsar xx. 349 These letters give a vivid picture of the uncertainties which distracted public opinion.
3. a. Of colour, light, etc.: Brilliant, fresh, lively, bright.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. v. (1848) 354 Many of the Ladies wear in their Ribbands little less vivid colours, than those of their faces. 1667― in Phil. Trans. II. 582 A piece of such Wood..that gave a vivid light (for rotten Wood). 1704Newton Optics i. ii. x. (1721) 157 Such Bodies ought to be chosen as have the fullest and most vivid Colours. c1750Shenstone Ruin'd Abbey 180 The vivid vermeil fled his fady cheek. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, Upon the vivid glow of the western horizon. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 413 In a little time it becomes of a deep vivid blue. 1867Howells Ital. Journ. 114 The lavish delight in color found expression in the vividest hues upon the walls. 1875J. H. Bennet Winter Medit. (ed. 5) 408 The love of vivid colours seems to increase as we descend south.
b. Of things in respect of colour or brightness.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. iv. 212 The Sun alone makes not any Rainbow that is vivid or Illustrious. 1718Pope Iliad viii. 691 Around her throne the vivid planets roll. a1763Shenstone Elegies xi. 42 Then glows the breast..More free, more vivid, than the linnet's wing. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. II. 381 The best glasses have no other effect than the making them [the stars] more vivid in their appearance. 1837New Monthly Mag. L. 407 A wreath of laurel, intensely vivid, inclosed..the auburn splendours of the head. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 21 Like a vivid circular rainbow quite round the sun. 1874Holland Mistr. Manse 114 The brooding, threatning bank of mist Grows into groups of vivid isles.
4. a. Clearly or distinctly perceived or perceptible; appealing strongly to the mind or eye.
1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xix. 112 Those Motions made on the Organs of Sense, which at other times produce very vivid and sensible Ideas. 1710J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Nat. Philos. (1729) I. 248 This immaterial Image, ought to be so much the more vivid or clear, as the Object sends forth more Rays of Light. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. II. 214 We shall find the traces of this event more vivid and determinate than those of Greece. 1806Jebb in Knox & J. Corr. (1834) I. 297 Sweet sounds awaken latent harmonies within us, and thus produce a vivid idea of the beautiful. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 320 At a moment when the part played by the people in July was still fresh and vivid in recollection. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech ii. (1873) 79 note, No book gives a more vivid impression of the growth of Russian influence. 1883H. Wace Gosp. & Witnesses ii. 34 Its vivid internal marks of genuineness.
absol.1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 261 Whether the cause lie not rather in a besetting velleity of the picturesque and vivid.
b. Intensely or strongly felt.
1704–5Atterbury Serm., Matt. xiv. 23 (1726) I. 357 Tempting Objects, by their Number and Nearness, make the most Vivid and Lasting Impressions upon us. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 41 A more vivid Sensation of Cold. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. ii. 55 Seasons..in which the clergy are exposed to vivid anxieties or endure actual privations. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. viii. (1857) 111 When the recollection of his sin is most vivid and most poignant. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §1. 454 The vivid sense of a Divine Purity close to such men made the life of common men seem sin.
5. Life-like; resembling life.
1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xi, He carried a stick with a wooden head, carved in vivid imitation of that of a serpent.
6. quasi-adv. Vividly, brightly.
1819Keats Fall Hyperion i. 245 The scenes Still swooning vivid through my globed brain. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xx. iii. (1872) IX. 44 The Prussian camp-fires, they too are all burning uncommonly vivid. |
