Vividly means in a way that is bright and sharply detailed. Vividly remember, vividly described, vividly coloured.
It belongs to memory above all, and vividly remembering something is a claim about the quality of the recollection rather than its accuracy, which are not the same thing. Vivid memories of shocking events are famously unreliable.
1adverbvividlyIn a way that is bright and sharply detailed.
“She described the storm so vividly that we could almost hear the thunder.”
vividly is a manner.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷeyh₃-
Latin
vīvidus
English
vivid
English, today
vividly
Built from
From vivid + -ly. vivid Learned borrowing from Latin vīvidus. Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivo (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (“life”). The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA