vibrant
See also: Vibrant
English
Etymology
From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaɪbɹənt/
Adjective
vibrant (comparative more vibrant, superlative most vibrant)
- Pulsing with energy or activity.
- He has a vibrant personality.
- Lively and vigorous.
- Vibrating, resonant or resounding.
- 1770, Anthony Champion, “The Empire of Love. / A Philosophical Poem.”, in Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin, T. Bensley, for J. White, page 111:
- Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame;
- 1905, David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies, The Singing of the Future, J. Lane, page 258:
- A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable
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- (of a colour) Bright.
Translations
pulsing with energy or activity
lively and vigorous
Further reading
- vibrant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vibrant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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