Antonyms for vivid
ˈvɪv ɪdvivid

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. vivid

   Antonyms:
   dull, opaque, nonluminous, obscure, rayless, lurid, somber, nonreflecting, dim, dusky, cloudy, nebulous, pale, wan, caliginous

   Synonyms:
   bright, brilliant, luminous, resplendent, lustrous, radiant, graphic, clear, lively, animated, stirring, striking, glowing, sunny, bright, scintillant

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vividadjective

   evoking lifelike images within the mind

   "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"

   Antonyms:
   colourless, colorless, unclear, unsaturated, unrealistic

   Synonyms:
   graphical, graphic, natural, pictural, pictorial, bright, intense, lifelike, brilliant, in writing(p)

2. vividadjective

   having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience

   "a vivid recollection"

   Antonyms:
   unclear, colourless, colorless, unsaturated, unrealistic

   Synonyms:
   graphic, intense, brilliant, pictorial, bright, lifelike

3. bright, brilliant, vividadjective

   having striking color

   "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"

   Antonyms:
   unclear, colourless, unrealistic, unsaturated, colorless

   Synonyms:
   shining, promising, hopeful, splendid, intense, smart, smart as a whip, lifelike, superb, brilliant, bright, lustrous, pictorial, burnished, brainy, graphic, magnificent, undimmed, glorious, shiny

4. intense, vividadjective

   (of color) having the highest saturation

   "vivid green"; "intense blue"

   Antonyms:
   unrealistic, colourless, unclear, colorless, unsaturated

   Synonyms:
   graphic, acute, pictorial, bright, intense, lifelike, brilliant

How to use vivid in a sentence?

1. Denis Watley:

   Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

2. Spiegel Grau:

   Prince is a towering figure in global culture and his music has been the soundtrack for untold numbers of people — including me — for more than a generation; his creative genius has provided the musical landscape of our lives, millions of words have been written about Prince — books and articles, essays and criticism — but we're thrilled to be publishing Prince's powerful reflections on his own life in his own incandescently vivid, witty, and poetic voice.

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Imagination is a vision with vivid pictures in the canvas of the mind.

4. Jackie Speier:

   I have a very vivid recollection of that experience, it was the quintessential issue around womanhood.

5. Michael Proffitt:

   The inclusion in OED of a number of words coined by or associated with Roald Dahl reflects both Roald Dahl influence as an author and Roald Dahl vivid and distinctive style, for many children Roald Dahl’s work is not only one of their first experiences of reading, but also their earliest exposure to the creative power of language.

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