Synonyms for vivid
ˈvɪv ɪdvivid

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

1. vivid

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

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

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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"

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

   Antonyms:
   colourless, colorless, unclear, unsaturated, unrealistic

2. vividadjective

   having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience

   "a vivid recollection"

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

   Antonyms:
   unclear, colourless, colorless, unsaturated, unrealistic

3. bright, brilliant, vividadjective

   having striking color

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

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

   Antonyms:
   unclear, colourless, unrealistic, unsaturated, colorless

4. intense, vividadjective

   (of color) having the highest saturation

   "vivid green"; "intense blue"

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

   Antonyms:
   unrealistic, colourless, unclear, colorless, unsaturated

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1. vividadjective

   Synonyms:
   lively, sprightly, vigorous, animated, quick, active, strong

2. vividadjective

   Synonyms:
   bright, clear, lucid

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1. List of paraphrases for "vivid":

   lively, razor-sharp, life-like, alive, perennial, lifelike, vivo, intense, striking, impactful

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1. Howie Lieberman:

   It's hard to believe that a year has passed already, obviously, it's still very vivid in my memory. And it's kind of mixed emotions. Looking back, there's always that sense of, could we have done more ? Could we have done something different ?

2. Avi Mayer:

   While high-profile attacks such as those at the Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, the Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014, and the kosher supermarket in Paris and the synagogue in Copenhagen last year have certainly been the most vivid instances of violence targeting French and European Jews, the French Jewish community has been living with a deep sense of insecurity for quite some time.

3. Anatole France:

   The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

4. Myles Cosgrove:

   I see blinding, vivid, white light and I see blackness at the same time. Just dark, deep black and these vivid white flashes.

5. Nick Hague:

   We were violently shaken side to side, thrust back into our seats as the launch escape system ripped us away from the rocket, as all of that's happening, you're being shaken around, vision is blurry. I hear the alarm sounding and see the red light where the engine has had an emergency. I had the vivid realization we aren't making it to orbit today, we've been pulled off rocket and we have to land.