Of conditions or qualities: present to a high degree. Also: relating to such conditions or qualities. Of illumination, light, shadow, colour: vivid…

Of a colour: strong, deep, warm.

Of a colour or pigment: bright, deep, intense, pure. Obsolete.

Strong, stout, powerful. Of a colour: strong, dark. Obsolete. rare.

Of colour (or coloured objects): Intense from the quantity of colour through or on which one looks; highly chromatic. The opposite of faint, thin.

Of colour: deep, intense, rich. Of light: intense, bright.

Of a colour or shade: intense, deep. Cf. saturated, adj. 5, sad, adj. 10.

Of a colour: rich, full.

Shakespeare's use has by some writers been misapprehended as referring to colour.

Of a colour: vivid, intense; free from admixture of white or another achromatic colour. Cf. saturation, n. 11a.

= lush, adj.1

Of a colour: rich, deep, intense.

Increased in amount or degree; intensified, heightened.

Painting. Of colour or a colour: bright, intense; pure; (of a painting or artistic style) characterized by such colour.

Of a colour: intense, vivid. (Sometimes as the first element in adjectival compounds.) Cf. also acid colour n. (b) at compounds 1c.