vivid

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• /ˈvɪvɪd/
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• CMU ARPABET: V IH1 V AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: V IH1 V IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: ярък (jarǎk) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Catalan: vívid — clear, detailed or powerful
• Chinese Mandarin: 生動 /生动 (shēngdòng) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Chinese Mandarin: 鮮烈 /鲜烈 (xiānliè) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Chinese Mandarin: 鮮明 /鲜明 (xiānmíng) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Dutch: helder — clear, detailed or powerful
• Dutch: gedetailleerd — clear, detailed or powerful
• Dutch: krachtig — clear, detailed or powerful
• Esperanto: viva — clear, detailed or powerful
• Esperanto: detala — clear, detailed or powerful
• Finnish: elävä — clear, detailed or powerful
• Finnish: eloisa — clear, detailed or powerful
• French: vivide — clear, detailed or powerful
• Georgian: ნათელი (nateli) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Georgian: ცოცხალი (cocxali) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Georgian: მგზნებარე (mgznebare) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Georgian: ძლიერი (ʒlieri) — clear, detailed or powerful
• German: lebendig — clear, detailed or powerful
• German: lebhaft — clear, detailed or powerful
• German: anschaulich — clear, detailed or powerful
• Hindi: सुस्पष्ट (suspaṣṭa) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Hindi: सजीव (sajīv) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Hindi: जीवंत (jīvant) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Irish: glé — clear, detailed or powerful
• Irish: beoga — clear, detailed or powerful
• Irish: gléineach — clear, detailed or powerful
• Italian: chiaro — clear, detailed or powerful
• Italian: limpido — clear, detailed or powerful
• Japanese: 鮮烈 (senretsu) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Japanese: 鮮明 (senmei) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Japanese: 鮮やか (azayaka) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Macedonian: жив (živ) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Macedonian: ја́сен (jásen) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Norwegian: livlig — clear, detailed or powerful
• Portuguese: vívido — clear, detailed or powerful
• Russian: живо́й (živój) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Russian: я́сный (jásnyj) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Scottish Gaelic: beò — clear, detailed or powerful
• Spanish: vívido — clear, detailed or powerful
• Turkish: berrak — clear, detailed or powerful
• Turkish: açık — clear, detailed or powerful
• Turkish: net — clear, detailed or powerful
• Yiddish: בילדעריש (bilderish) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Zazaki: zelal (diq) — clear, detailed or powerful
• Belarusian: я́ркі (járki) — bright, intense or colourful
• Bulgarian: блестящ (blestjašt) — bright, intense or colourful
• Catalan: vívid — bright, intense or colourful
• Chinese Mandarin: 鮮豔 /鲜艳 (xiānyàn) — bright, intense or colourful
• Chinese Mandarin: 鮮明 /鲜明 (xiānmíng) — bright, intense or colourful
• Czech: živý — bright, intense or colourful
• Dutch: helder — bright, intense or colourful
• Dutch: intens — bright, intense or colourful
• Dutch: kleurrijklevendig — bright, intense or colourful
• Esperanto: vigla — bright, intense or colourful
• Finnish: elävä — bright, intense or colourful
• Georgian: კაშკაშა (ḳašḳaša) — bright, intense or colourful
• Georgian: ნათელი (nateli) — bright, intense or colourful
• Hindi: चमकीला (camkīlā) — bright, intense or colourful
• Hungarian: élénk — bright, intense or colourful
• Irish: gléineach — bright, intense or colourful
• Irish: glé — bright, intense or colourful
• Japanese: 鮮明 (senmei) — bright, intense or colourful
• Japanese: 鮮やか (azayaka) — bright, intense or colourful
• Macedonian: све́тол (svétol) — bright, intense or colourful
• Macedonian: живо́писен (živópisen) — bright, intense or colourful
• Māori: muramura — bright, intense or colourful
• Norwegian: knall- — bright, intense or colourful
• Portuguese: vívido — bright, intense or colourful
• Portuguese: vivo — bright, intense or colourful
• Russian: я́ркий (járkij) — bright, intense or colourful
• Scottish Gaelic: beò — bright, intense or colourful
• Sinhalese: වර්ණවත් (warṇawat) — bright, intense or colourful
• Spanish: vivo — bright, intense or colourful
• Swedish: färgglad — bright, intense or colourful
• Turkish: parlak — bright, intense or colourful
• Turkish: cırlak — bright, intense or colourful
• Vietnamese: sống động — bright, intense or colourful
• Yiddish: בילדעריש (bilderish) — bright, intense or colourful
• Zazaki: berqın — bright, intense or colourful
• Zazaki: vırsen — bright, intense or colourful