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.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.

* (rfdate), Thomas Shelton, translator, Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes

There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund , that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.

* (rfdate), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

* (rfdate) William Wordsworth

a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company