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vivid

adj
/ˈvɪvɪd/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti Proto-Italic *gʷīwō Latin vīvō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin vīviduslbor. English vivid Learned borrowing from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”). The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand.

  1. learned borrowing from vividus — “animated, spirited”

Definitions

  1. Clear, detailed, or powerful.

  2. Bright, intense, or colourful.

  3. Full of life

    Full of life; strikingly alive.

    • The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him, and for a time he had found delight in it; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A felt-tipped permanent marker

      A felt-tipped permanent marker; a marker pen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vivid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at vivid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at vivid

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA