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ultravivid en · ADJ

Etymology

From ultra- + vivid.

Meanings

1. Extraordinarily vivid; of utmost vividness or vividity.
   • Derain realized that to build with color one needed the use of ochers and browns to set off the ultravivid tones. He began to use more discreet color harmonies. 1960, Anthony Burry, Henry Kellerman, Instructor 1960-03: Volume 69, Issue 7, Scholastic Incorporated, page 17:
   • This consists of habitual direct observation of pathologic process and the suppression of an ultravivid clinical imagination. The remark Francis Bacon that medical science is more professed than labored, applies only too commonly today. 1929, The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 1929-01: Volume 14, Issue 4, Elsevier Limited, page 302:
   • The first dream development that resulted from reading cards was a shift from ephemeral to more substantial portrayals. These ultravivid dreams often produced an emphasis on material pertinent to ESP and a fade-out of material that had no precognitive value. The following is such a dream. 1974, Katharine Cover Sabin, ESP and Dream Analysis, Henry Regnery Company, page 17:
   • Equally notable is the flaming heart of St. Teresa, which is so ultravivid in its fervor that it lures even “a seraphim”’ into tourist sight-seeing: This is the mistress flame, and duteous/he Her happy fireworks, here, comes down to see: 1945, Lawrence Emerson Nelson, Our Roving Bible: Tracking Its Influence Through English and American Life, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, page 71:
   • Pinlighting consisted of the detonation of ultravivid miniature photonuclear bombs, which converted a few ounces of a magnesium isotope into pure visible radiance. 1972, Damon Francis Knight, A Science Fiction Argosy, Simon and Schuster, page 203:
   • Most of the time I spent touring Alexandria, visiting friends, and sitting in cafés eating a strange, very sweet ice cream that hung from the spoon in dribbling shapes. There was also a water ice in ultravivid shades of pink, orange, and green that was very refreshing on a hot, muggy day. 1930, Pauline Koner, Solitary Song, Duke University Press, page 63:

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