adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold/vivid/vibrant colour (= bright in a way that is exciting )
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His paintings are known for their use of bold colours.
a clear/vivid impression
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He had the clear impression that most people were in favour of the idea.
a vivid account (= so clear that it seems real or like real life )
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I read a vivid account of his experiences in Egypt.
a vivid dream (= very clear )
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In a vivid dream he saw a huge coloured bird flying above his head.
a vivid memory (= very clear and detailed )
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I have vivid memories of that summer.
a vivid metaphor (= one that gives you a picture in your mind )
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The book is full of vivid metaphors and powerful images.
a vivid picture (= very clear )
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Their diaries give us a vivid picture of their lives at the time.
a vivid reminder (= strong )
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Their performance was a vivid reminder of just why this band has remained so successful.
a vivid/fertile imagination (= an ability to think of a lot of ideas and things that could happen )
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She had a fertile imagination and a great sense of humour.
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With your vivid imagination, you should write a book.
vivid detail (= in such a way that they seem real )
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The three characters in the novel are described with vivid detail.
vivid (= very clear and interesting )
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The book contains some vivid descriptions of his childhood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Jack's round was not as vivid as the day before.
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To make your story as vivid as possible, include details such as names, dollar amounts, and ages when relevant.
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The pictures of her life yet to come were as vivid , and yet she could see no meaning in them.
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Gao Yang watched from a distance, and the scene was as vivid in his mind now as the day it happened.
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Its image of rampant eclecticism outside the house is quite as vivid as that offered by Lady Clavering's London interior.
less
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Memories grow less vivid , recent experiences are unshared, and imagined caresses across the kilometres become harder to conjure.
more
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The advantage will be smoother, more life-like, more in-depth games - and probably more vivid nightmares.
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It was more vivid than they had expected.
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The images were more vivid tonight, perhaps because of the coldness which had developed between him and Celia.
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The hypnotist-trainer helps athletes make their own images more vivid and certain.
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What is perhaps missing is that element of spontaneity which serves to project Haydn's originality in a more vivid manner.
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Repeat the steps above, trying to make it even more vivid than it was last time.
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Light and shade cohabit like life and death, the one more vivid for the dread presence of the other.
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And then there are the dreams, more vivid than the live-long day.
most
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We will pay £25 for the most vivid , moving or humorous memories.
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I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the mountains.
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It remains one of the most vivid and magical memories of my life.
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The early days are, in many ways, the most vivid .
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But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.
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Of all the eidetic images that remain from my childhood, frozen with crude representational accuracy, this is the most vivid .
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Some of the most vivid , lasting and controversial lessons were about political heavy-hitting.
so
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Their memories are so vivid and horrific that they wish to forget them.
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His portraits of Vancouver and Hong Kong ring true and are so vivid that I wanted to return to each.
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Which was probably why it was so vivid .
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These moments were so vivid , so powerful, that they over-rode the endless tedium and the despair.
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And the black and white is so vivid !
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The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend.
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But now, with the memory of her dream and his kiss so vivid , it was ten times worse.
too
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Tamar's description, to him and Elizabeth, had been too vivid for him ever to confuse it.
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A chicken with too vivid an imagination.
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A small scene, perhaps, but for some reason too vivid to be forgotten.
very
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I've got very vivid memories of that summer, about Abbotsfield and Carinish Court.
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But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.
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Dickens' characters are very vivid and memorable.
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When you are there the impression is one of a very warm and very vivid culture; there is a lot more humour.
■ NOUN
account
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Senior Labor politician Tony Benn has been publishing diary installments for decades, providing a vivid account of Parliament.
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You can enjoy an exhibition that gives a vivid account of the fugitive King's perilous adventures.
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Another Federal soldier who later penned a vivid account of the things he saw was sixteen-year-old John A.. Cockerill.
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David Thomson's vivid account of these goings-on, in Woodbrook, had aroused my curiosity.
colours
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Marine fish have such beautiful vivid colours and it is a pity not to display these to best advantage.
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Photographs taken with large telescopes are needed to bring out their vivid colours , and with binoculars they appear white and milky.
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Subtlety of shade is another key to the use of more vivid colours .
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Follow the given preparation and cooking order correctly for the best flavour and beautiful vivid colours .
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Which shades of green blend best with each other, with pale colours , with vivid colours?
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Sandy Powell's designs for Kate employ vivid colours , often linked with the decor.
description
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In Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner there is a vivid description of such a situation.
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If a story was written skillfully enough to include vivid descriptions , Louisa pictured them in her mind.
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Though there is plenty of period detail and vivid description , the effect is at the same time oddly weightless.
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I thought of the vivid description with which Omar had burdened my memory.
detail
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The moving image has immediacy and can offer vivid detail .
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I recall her bum, though, in vivid detail .
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The Barthelmes recount in vivid detail and with good psychological insight the trauma of coping with that dual loss.
dream
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This is a normal vivid dream state and is a natural activity of the brain.
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I love the company and I have vivid dreams as I see others appreciating the beauty of this land, too.
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As his sleep problem developed, he could only manage two or three hours of sleep, frequently disturbed by vivid dreams .
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But one night I had a vivid dream of her, that she had died.
example
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Noble has suggested that this represents a vivid example of social choice in machine design.
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A vivid example of this combination of learning and performance is Electronic Campus, which grew out of research at Apple Computer.
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Equally parliamentarians spoke of cruelty, inhumanity and tyranny as features of the slave trade and slavery, often providing vivid examples .
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The debate over health care reform in 1993-94 offers a vivid example .
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The effect of contrast and seeming absurdity is revealed in vivid examples .
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The cases, crafted and written by the executives themselves, become vivid examples of skilled incompetence.
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Perhaps this is one of the most vivid examples we have of the effect of the pictorial image on the medieval mind.
illustration
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The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration .
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The special includes vivid illustrations of the impact meteors have had in the past and what could happen in the future.
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But there is another vivid illustration of the discrimination practised by the Labour Party against people who live in the province.
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Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
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Try to find a vivid illustration of your theme to start off your talk.
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The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770.
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The Star's fuller reports gave a vivid illustration of two starkly contrasting versions of the same incident.
image
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The radio waves, magnetic field and computer technology combine to produce vivid images of the body's soft tissue.
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Afterwards, people remembered nothing of what the president said, but retained a vivid image of what he wore.
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Rachel's hands were white-knuckled on the window-sill as she pictured it, vivid images burning into her mind.
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Hypnagogic experiences, as they are called, are characterized by a series of relatively disconnected but vivid images .
imagination
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Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt.
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The Yippies were armed with a vivid imagination to match their rhetoric.
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Although he'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination , Charlie saw it all in an instant.
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Mark deployed his vivid imagination in a wild-child narrative to create a boy who hunts deer, bears, and birds.
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With her vivid imagination , Melissa could visualise the scene and it sickened her.
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Her vivid imagination created some one tall and slim, blonde and attractive.
memory
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I've got very vivid memories of that summer, about Abbotsfield and Carinish Court.
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Meanwhile, those who observed the jumbo jet exploding say they still have vivid memories .
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I have a vivid memory of her descending the stairs to the conservatory where we said our vows.
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Jack Russell's painting inspires vivid memories of that moment of discovery.
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He has vivid memories of how it feels to lose your job.
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As an employer of labour, I have vivid memories of that time.
picture
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But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.
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Nice vivid pictures , despite working on old computers.
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He also describes vivid pictures with extreme detail and.
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Her imagination conjured up an erotically vivid picture and she knew a hectic flush had risen to her cheeks.
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But he had a vivid picture of her in his mind, lean and hungry in her scarlet bathing suit.
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Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
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He painted a vivid picture of apprehension and tiredness.
reminder
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His ebullient personality is a vivid reminder of the polymath of past times.
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It was a vivid reminder that descending the water column in a submarine is an unnatural act.
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This is a vivid reminder of the significant social effects of Government planning guidance.
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It was a vivid reminder of the stark difference between Washington news and real-world news.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a vivid blue sky
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a vivid red cape
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a cloud of vivid yellow butterflies
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I loved listening to his vivid descriptions of life in Italy.
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Include details to make your story as vivid as possible.
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One of my most vivid memories is of my first day at school.
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The book gives a vivid account of the author's journey through northern Africa.
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The drug can make people suffer hallucinations and vivid nightmares.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London, brilliantly catching its degradation and waste.
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Repeat the steps above, trying to make it even more vivid than it was last time.
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She could see nothing except a vivid scarlet blur, the colour of a London bus.
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The bright exposure of a vivid blue patch alarms the attacker and may save the lizard's life.
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Yet decades earlier, readers had already gotten a vivid fictionalized look at the inner earth from another science-fiction author.