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/ˈvɪvɪd/- 1having 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.
a vivid description/account:I loved my father’s vivid descriptions of foreign cities.
paint a vivid picture (=describe something very clearly):The novel paints a vivid picture of life in the jungle.
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a vivid imagination
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vividly
adverbI still remember it vividly.
vividness
noun [uncountable]This is the British English definition of vivid. View American English definition of vivid.
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