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Virid vs Vivid - What's the difference?

virid | vivid |

As nouns the difference between virid and vivid

is that virid is (rare) a virid colour or virid can be (usually|in plural) any of a group of related viruses while vivid is (new zealand) a felt-tipped permanent marker.

As adjectives the difference between virid and vivid

is that virid is green, verdant while vivid is (of perception) clear, detailed or powerful.

virid

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) viridis, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) A virid colour.
  • * 1991 , Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages , Penguin Books, page 173:
    • In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin ‘like our other chaplains’,
  • * 1994 , Paul U. Unschuld, Learn to Read Chinese , volume 1, Paradigm Publications, page 249:
    • (Among the colors) the five types of virid , red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished;
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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Green, verdant.
  • * 1858 , James Macpherson, The Highlander , Canto IV, page 52,
    • The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry spot of grassy ground.
  • * 1929 , , Chivalry , 2006, page 135,
    • Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
  • * 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve
    • His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.
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    • Related terms
    * viridescence * viridescent * viridian * viridity

    See also

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    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in plural) Any of a group of related viruses.

    • vivid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (New Zealand) A felt-tipped permanent marker.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.
  • (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
  • Full of life, strikingly alive.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=32 citation , passage=The vivid , untrammeled life appealed to him, and for a time he had found delight in it; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.}}

    Derived terms

    * vividness * vividly

    Related terms

    * devive * revive * survive * viable * vital

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