Definition: 1. Evoking lifelike images within the mind. 2. Having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience. 3. Having striking color.
Use 'vivid' in a sentence:
1. People of my generation who lived through World War II have vivid memories of confusion and incompetence.
2. Pat has vivid recollections of the trip.
3. The word is added to give vivid description.
4. The vivid images of more than 300 animals that Jean-Marie Chauvet and his assistants found on the cave walls were like none that they had seen before.
5. To get it vivid, you should think of it as though it's being done to you.
6. This painting has vivid colours but poor composition.
7. He has a vivid example of this.
8. A vivid picture was present in her mind.
9. A lively/ vivid image appeared in his mind.
10. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
11. With vivid brass bellpulls, a poor man might walk here as a Dickensian child put its face to a windowpane.
12. He has continued to write with a bluff, vivid humour about Yorkshire life.
13. A vivid example of such replay can be seen in a video researchers made recently about sleep disorders.
14. The paintings were so vivid.
15. He told us a very lively/ vivid story about his life in Africa.
16. Our economic construction is vivid with life.
17. He gave a vivid account of his life as a fighter pilot.
18. Give a vivid description; make it come to.
19. I have a vivid picture of my grandfather smiling down at me when I was very small.
20. The dream of personalised flight is still vivid in the minds of many inventors, some developing cycle-powered craft, others pouring money into jetpacks.
21. Success authors usually serve up vivid stories about how exceptional businesspeople stamped their personalities on a company or rescued it from a life-threatening crisis.
22. The book gives a vivid description of the seedy side of city life.
23. I have a vivid memory of first time we met.
24. Latanya is a woman with a vivid imagination.
25. With enough practice you can fly, visit exotic places, experience vivid colors, or eat all the ice cream you want, all without taking your head off the pillow.
26. Those with a vivid imagination tend to stand out in some creative work.
27. A vivid picture is present to our eye.
28. He relied on translucent enamels to produce vivid, glowing pictures.
29. Overcooked greens are my most vivid recollection of school dinners.
30. What a vivid picture it is!
31. By introducing a degree of forcefulness and humor, the machine could be presented as a vivid and unique character.
32. I had a vivid dream about my old school.
33. Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination.
34. What vivid pictures!
35. The teacher gave a lively/ vivid description of the story.
36. Suddenly she looked back and beheld such glory as she had not even seen in her most vivid dream.
37. He sketched the situation in a few vivid words.
38. To be an inventor, one needs profound knowledge as well as a very vivid imagination.
39. She gazed round the church at the grey uneven walls and the vivid stained glass windows.
40. I dream about him, dreams so vivid that they disturb me for days.
41. He has a real gift for vivid description.
42. The story shows a strong narrative gift and a vivid eye for detail.
43. The report paints a vivid picture of life in the city.
44. Vivid red and pink geraniums cascade over my balcony.
45. His eyes were a vivid green.
46. The lightning was vivid.
47. What a vivid flash of lightning!
48. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
49. I have vivid memories of my grandparents.
50. I love this novel because it draws a vivid portrait of country lifestyle in Britain.
