vivid

Meanings

Adjective

• Clear, detailed or powerful.
• Bright, intense or colourful.
• Full of life, strikingly alive.

Noun

• A felt-tipped permanent marker.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin vividus, from vivo, akin to vita, Ancient Greek βίος.
• The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from a brand name.