vibrant

From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪbɹənt/

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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 color) Bright.

• (pulsing with energy or activity): dynamic, energetic, spirited; see also Thesaurus:active
• (lively, vigorous):
• (resonant, resounding): booming, remugient; see also Thesaurus:sonorous
• (bright): dazzling, luminous, nitid

• vibrate
• vibration
• vibrantly
• vibrator

vibrant (plural vibrants)

1. (phonetics) Any of a class of consonants including taps and trills.

• “vibrant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vibrant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

vibrant

1. gerund of vibrar

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vibrant

1. present participle of vibrer

• “vibrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

vibrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vibrō

Borrowed from French vibrant.

vibrant m or n (feminine singular vibrantă, masculine plural vibranți, feminine and neuter plural vibrante)

1. vibrant