Word Meanings - VIVID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors. In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play. Cowper. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting,
Additional info about word: VIVID
1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors. In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play. Cowper. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart. 2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination. Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. South. Syn. -- Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick; sprightly; active. -- Viv"id*ly, adv. -- Viv"id*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VIVID)
- Graphic
- Picturesque
- illustrative
- descriptive
- pictorial
- forcible
- vivid
- feeling
- described
- picturesquely
- Lively
- Brisk
- animated
- keen
- eager
- blithe
- alert
- vivacious
- quick
- spirited
- vigorous
- sprightly
- active
- Profound
- Deep
- fathomless
- abysmal
- penetrating
- intimate
- solemn
- abstruse
- recondite
- philosophical
- strong
- intense
- deepseated
- Rich
- Wealthy
- opulent
- affluent
- abundant
- generous
- productive
- copious
- fertile
- fruitful
- valuable
- costly
- high-flavored
- luscious
- oleaginous
- deep
- bright
- superb
- gorgeous
Related words: (words related to VIVID)
- LIVELY
1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier - BRIGHT
See I - SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - BLITHE
Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe, - SOLEMNIZATION
The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. - GORGEOUS
Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, - SOLEMNIZE
1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers - INTIMATE
corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate - VALUABLENESS
The quality of being valuable. - ANIMATING
Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv. - SOLEMN
Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious; - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - AFFLUENTNESS
Great plenty. - SOLEMNIZATE
To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet. - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - ABSTRUSELY
In an abstruse manner. - FEELINGLY
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically. - QUICKBEAM
See TREE - SOLEMNLY
In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally. There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise. Dryden. I do solemnly assure the reader. Swift. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
Pertaining to petrography. - STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the - PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
Pantographic. See Pantograph. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - PHYTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to phytography. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - INANIMATION
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.