VIV'ID, adjective [Latin vividus, from vivo, to live.] 1. Lively; sprightly; active. Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly vivid faculties to exert themselves in. 2. Lively; sprightly; forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; as a vivid imagination. 3. Bright; strong; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; as the vivid colors of the rainbow; the vivid green of flourishing vegetables. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine.
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