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)

  1. Pulsing with energy or activity.
    He has a vibrant personality.
  2. Lively and vigorous.
  3. 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
  4. (of a colour) Bright.

Translations

Further reading

  • vibrant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • vibrant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Catalan

Verb

vibrant

  1. present participle of vibrar

French

Verb

vibrant

  1. present participle of vibrer

Latin

Verb

vibrant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of vibrō
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