1. Evoking lifelike images within the mind
   "a vivid description"
   - graphic, lifelike, pictorial 
2. Having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
   "a vivid recollection" 
3. Having striking colour
   "a bird with vivid plumage"
   - bright, brilliant 
4. (of colour) having the highest saturation
   "vivid green"
   - intense

Derived forms: vivider, vividest

See also: clear, colorful [US], colourful [Brit, Cdn], pure, realistic, saturated, vividly, vividness

Encyclopedia: Vivid

• pitch pine
• pitch pipe
• pitch shot
• pitch-black
• pitch-dark
• pitchblende
• pitched
• pitched battle
• pitcher
• pitcher plant
• pitcher sage
• pitcher's mound
• pitcher-plant family
• pitcher-shaped
• pitcherful
• pitchfork
• pitching
• pitching change
• pitching coach
• pitching wedge
• pitchman
• pitchstone
• pitchy
• piteous
• piteously