different between stirring vs vivid

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st?????/

Adjective

stirring

1. invigorating or inspiring

   • As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.

   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]

     The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

Translations

Verb

stirring

1. present participle of stir

Noun

stirring (countable and uncountable, plural stirrings)

1. (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek ???? (bíos, “life”).

The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from a brand name.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?v?d/

Adjective

vivid (comparative vivider, superlative vividest)

1. (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.
2. (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.
3. Full of life, strikingly alive.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

vivid (plural vivids)

1. (New Zealand) A felt-tipped permanent marker.

Further reading

• vivid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vivid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Spanish

Verb

vivid

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of vivir.