different between vivid vs imagery

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

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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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English ymagerie, from Middle French imagerie; equivalent to image +? -ry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?d??i/, /-?d??i/, /??m?d???i/

Noun

imagery (countable and uncountable, plural imageries)

1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
2. Imitation work.
3. Images in general, or en masse.
4. (figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
5. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
6. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Translations

Middle English

Noun

imagery

1. Alternative form of ymagerie