vivid

vivid
viv|id [ `vıvıd ] adjective *
1. ) having or producing very clear and detailed images in the mind:
I've been having extraordinarily vivid dreams recently.
vivid memory/recollection: I have a vivid memory of the first time we met.
paint a vivid picture (=describe something very clearly): The novel paints a vivid picture of life in the jungle.
a vivid description/account: I loved my father's vivid descriptions of foreign cities.
2. ) a vivid example of something shows very clearly that something exists or is true:
The incident is a vivid illustration of the hysteria currently gripping the nation.
3. ) a vivid color is strong and bright:
vivid green leaves
Marine fish have beautiful vivid colors.
a vivid imagination
if you have a vivid imagination, you are able to imagine ideas, images, etc. very easily
╾ viv|id|ly adverb:
I still remember it vividly.
╾ viv|id|ness noun uncount

Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.

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