vibrant

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪbɹənt/

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.

• vibrate
• vibration
• vibrantly
• vibrator

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

vibrant

1. present participle of vibrar

vibrant

1. present participle of vibrer

vibrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vibrō