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| Main Entry: | vivid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense, powerful |
| Synonyms: | active, animated, bright, brilliant, clear, colorful, definite, distinct, dramatic, dynamic, eloquent, energetic, expressive, flamboyant, gay, glowing, graphic, lifelike, lively, lucid, meaningful, memorable, picturesque, realistic, resplendent, rich, sharp, shining, spirited, stirring, striking, strong, telling, theatrical, vigorous, highly colored, true-to-life |
| Antonyms: | dull, weak |
| Main Entry: | animated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lively |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, animate, ardent, brisk, buoyant, dynamic, ebullient, elated, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, fervent, gay, happy, passionate, peppy, quick, snappy, spirited, sprightly, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivid, zealous, zippy, activated, energized, vitalized, zestful, zingy |
| Main Entry: | descriptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | characteristic, circumstantial, clear, definitive, detailed, eloquent, expository, expressive, extended, graphic, illuminating, illustrative, indicative, lifelike, narrative, picturesque, specific, vivid, anecdotic, characterizing, classificatory, delineative, depictive, describing, designating, explicative, identifying, illuminative, interpretive, particularized, pictorial, revealing, true to life |
| Antonyms: | confusing, cursory, undescriptive |
| Main Entry: | dramatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting, moving |
| Synonyms: | affecting, breathtaking, comic, effective, emotional, expressive, farcical, histrionic, impressive, melodramatic, powerful, sensational, startling, striking, sudden, tense, theatrical, thespian, thrilling, tragic, vivid, climactic, electrifying, suspenseful, tragicomic |
| Antonyms: | normal, ordinary, unexciting, unmoving, usual, comedic, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | effulgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing, luminous |
| Synonyms: | beaming, blazing, bright, brilliant, dazzling, flaming, incandescent, lambent, lustrous, radiant, resplendent, shining, splendid, vivid, fluorescent, lucent |
| Main Entry: | eloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued*, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, facund, revealing, smooth-spoken*, well-expressed |
| Antonyms: | dull, inarticulate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
| Synonyms: | alive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, showy, significant, silver-tongued*, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm, allusive, pictorial, revelatory |
| Antonyms: | expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impassioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, furious, glowing, heated*, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, passionate, powerful, profound, red-hot*, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed*, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, zealous, fired up, hot-blooded, overemotional, perfervid, steamed up, white-hot, wild about, worked up |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forceful, severe; passionate |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, ardent, biting, bitter, burning, close, concentrated, consuming, cutting, deep, diligent, eager, earnest, energetic, exaggerated, exceptional, excessive, exquisite, extraordinary, extreme, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fierce, forcible, full, great, hard, harsh, impassioned, intensive, keen, marked, piercing, powerful, profound, pungent, sharp, shrill, stinging, strained, strong, supreme, undue, vehement, violent, vivid, zealous, all-consuming, heightened, intensified, protracted |
| Antonyms: | calm, dull, low-key, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | lurid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shocking, gruesome |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bloody, deep, disgusting, distinct, exaggerated, extreme, fiery, ghastly, gory*, graphic, grim, grisly, hideous, horrible, livid, macabre, melodramatic, obscene, off-color*, offensive, purple*, racy, raunchy, revolting, rough, salty, sanguine*, savage, sensational, sinister, startling, terrible, terrifying, violent, vivid, yellow*, horrid, horrifying, low-down |
| Antonyms: | clean, humble, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | photographic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exact, retentive in detail |
| Synonyms: | accurate, detailed, faithful, graphic, lifelike, minute, natural, picturesque, precise, realistic, visual, vivid, cinematic, filmic, pictorial, true-to-life |
| Main Entry: | picturesque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive, referring to scenery |
| Synonyms: | artistic, beautiful, charming, colorful, graphic, photographic, pleasant, pretty, quaint, scenic, striking, vivid, arresting, pictorial |
| Antonyms: | hideous, ugly, unsightly |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, stentorian, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid, elocutionary, gesticulative, gesturing, intoning, senatorial, stagy, stylistic |
| Antonyms: | natural, simple, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, alight, argent, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, incandescent, intense, lambent, light, limpid, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid, aglow, auroral, burnished, coruscating, flashing, fulgid, gleaming, glistening, illumined, irradiated, lighted, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, relucent, silvery, sunlit |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | brilliant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, bright, clinquant, dazzling, effulgent, flashy, fulgent, glittering, glossy, incandescent, intense, lambent, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, scintillating, showy, sparkling, vivid, coruscating, gleaming, lucent |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, dulled |
| Main Entry: | colorful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brilliant, intensely hued |
| Synonyms: | bright, flashy, florid, gaudy, gay, intense, jazzy, kaleidoscopic, loud, motley, multicolored, picturesque, psychedelic, rich, showy, splashy, variegated, vibrant, vivid, chromatic, hued, prismatic |
| Antonyms: | colorless, drab, dreary, faded, plain, uncolored, uncolorful |
| Main Entry: | definite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exact, clear |
| Synonyms: | audible, bold, categorical, clean-cut, clear-cut, complete, crisp, definitive, determined, distinct, downright, explicit, express, fixed, forthright, full, graphic, incisive, marked, minute, obvious, palpable, particular, plain, positive, precise, pronounced, severe, sharp, specific, straightforward, tangible, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable, visible, vivid, well-defined, well-grounded, clearly defined, distinguishable, not vague, ringing, silhouetted, undubitable, well-marked |
| Antonyms: | indefinite, indistinct, inexact, obscure, uncertain, unclear, undefined, vague, imprecise, not clear |
| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning, bright |
| Synonyms: | beaming, flaming, florid, flush, flushed, lambent, luminous, lustrous, red, rich, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, vibrant, vivid, warm, aglow, gleaming, phosphorescent, suffused |
| Main Entry: | graphic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, explicit |
| Synonyms: | colorful, compelling, comprehensible, concrete, convincing, definite, descriptive, detailed, distinct, eloquent, expressive, figurative, forcible, illustrative, incisive, intelligible, lively, lucid, moving, perspicuous, picturesque, precise, realistic, stirring, striking, strong, telling, unequivocal, vivid |
| Antonyms: | implicit, unclear, vague |
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