Intense
Vivid
Vivid adjective - (of color) having the highest saturation.
Usage example: vivid green
Intense is a synonym for vivid in characteristic topic. You can use "Intense" instead an adjective "Vivid", if it concerns topics such as passionate, brilliant, bright, animated. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Vampire blood is prized for its healing powers and is often used as a recreational drug... with the side effect that it gives you vivid and intense sex dreams about the vampire it came from.
Source: Vampires Are Sex Gods -
Sugar's landmark album Copper Blue has it both on the cover◊ and in the title: pure metallic copper is a vivid metallic orange, while copper sulfate is an intense blue.
Source: Orange/Blue Contrast - The author uses intense description and action to make for vivid scenes, and captures the Firefly essence very well; a number of reviewers have said that it might as well have been written by Joss Whedon himself.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Firefly
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