German

Noun

Vibrant m ‎(genitive Vibranten, plural Vibranten)

1. (linguistics) trill

English

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.

Related terms

• vibrate
• vibration
• vibrantly
• vibrator

Translations

External links

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

French

Verb

vibrant

1. present participle of vibrer

Latin

Verb

vibrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vibrō