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Vivid

adjective

Evoking lifelike images within the mind. Synonyms: graphic, lifelike, pictorial. "Graphic accounts of battle" , "A lifelike portrait" , "A vivid description"

Having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience.

Having striking color. Synonyms: bright, brilliant. "Brilliant tapestries" , "A bird with vivid plumage"

(of color) having the highest saturation. Synonym: intense. "Intense blue"

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"Vivid" Quotes from Famous Books

... she presently appeared, in the wake of the impersonal and exclamatory young married woman who served as a background to her vivid outline, seemed competent to impart at short notice any information required of her. She had never struck Mrs. Peyton as more alert and efficient. A melting grace of line and colour tempered her edges with the charming haze of youth; but it occurred to her critic that she might emerge from ...

— Sanctuary • Edith Wharton

... of her was as she stood on the steps calling out her farewell; and he carried away a clearly-cut impression of the slight, blue-robed figure, her black hair a little loosened round her eager, vivid face, her eyes full of a new and ardent resolution, which had quite banished the look of sadness and fatigue he had ...

— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes

... gardener approached and stood and looked at her: then all at once she felt a sharp stab in her from his knife, and a vivid pain ran ...

— Bimbi • Louise de la Ramee

... appear sullen. He sat on the flagstones as if dazed and stupefied, facing a blacksmith's forge, which for many generations had occupied the north transept. A smith and some apprentices hammered measures that echoed with multiplied volume from the Norman roof; and the crimson fire made a spot vivid as blood. A low stone arch, half walled up, and blackened by smoke, framed the top of the smithy, and through this frame could be seen a bit of St. Bat's close outside, upon which the doors stood open. Now an apprentice would seize the bellows-handle ...

— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... them waiting. One of the servants, as though he had had some signal, threw open still another door and Zoraida, a splendid, vivid and vital Zoraida, burst upon their sight. She was gowned as though she had on the instant stepped from a fashionable Paris salon. And as though, on her swift way hither, she had stopped only an instant in some barbaric king's treasure house to snatch up and bedeck herself with ...

— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory

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