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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vibrant
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold/vivid/vibrant colour (=bright in a way that is exciting)
▪ His paintings are known for their use of bold colours.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Sounds, sights and smells were more vibrant.
▪ The Result: A richer, more vibrant colour.
▪ This sound was richer, more vibrant.
▪ Two minutes in its unplanned, crooked, medieval streets reveal that it is a more vibrant, cheerful and successful place.
▪ She was a younger and, nowadays, a more vibrant version of Elizabeth.
▪ They are always popular stocking-fillers, especially for those who are keen to re-live younger and perhaps more vibrant days.
▪ It is a long time since politics were more vibrant, at least for anyone who is not a professional Conservative.
most
▪ Called techno, it's the most vibrant dance sound of the late 80s.
■ NOUN
colours
▪ Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature.
▪ This is a fibre which takes dye so easily and well to produce all these lovely vibrant colours.
▪ Shot in vibrant colours and from bizarre angles, their squeaky clean Space Age home epitomises this antiseptic respectability.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vibrant fall colors
▪ the vibrant reds and oranges of the leaves in autumn
▪ The streets of the capital are vibrant with color.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Disputes are inevitable in a dynamic society with changing mores and a vibrant economy.
▪ Even so, its vibrant rhythms and gorgeous costumes make it Mr Chen's most accessible film so far.
▪ However, Coleridge's poems are not all so vibrant or meditative.
▪ In the forefront of this scene flutters the dress, incongruously vibrant despite its suggestion of loss.
▪ It is especially lively and vibrant.
▪ Neutral colors in their cubicles would soothe them, while sharp, vibrant colors would energize them in the public areas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vibrant

Vibrant \Vi"brant\, a. [L. vibrans, p. pr.: cf. F. vibrant. See Vibrate.] Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums.
--Longfellow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vibrant

1550s, "agitated;" 1610s, "vibrating" (especially "vibrating so as to produce sound," of a string, etc.), from Latin vibrantem (nominative vibrans) "swaying," present participle of vibrare "move to and fro" (see vibrate). Meaning "vigorous, full of life" is first recorded 1860. Related: Vibrantly; vibrancy.

Wiktionary
vibrant

a. 1 pulsing with energy or activity 2 lively and vigorous 3 vibrating, resonant or resounding

WordNet
vibrant

adj. vigorous and active; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance" [syn: vivacious]

Usage examples of "vibrant".

Against the vibrant, ultraviolet background of the nutritive culture, the aggregation of Thiobacillus glowed brilliantly from their treatment with the acridine orange stain.

Lay and cronies managed to destroy a vibrant economy in which Americans were enjoying unprecedented prosperity by bushwhacking our faith in the stock market.

Her skin was perfect, vibrant and glowing with health, and her skirt clung to her in the breeze, revealing her alluring shape.

What a fool the Earl of Clyme had been, denying himself the pleasure of knowing this vibrant creature.

New York without losing its original quality, the dynamism and grubby edges that made it an exciting vibrant place to live.

It was vibrant with power and certainty, as unlike the effete tones he normally adopted as her own voice had been when it broke on the sobs.

His looks had become imprinted upon their newly vibrant minds, and in their eating of the ugly others of their species, they avoided those Geets who carried any of his physical traits.

Exhausted, I put palms against it and felt perdurable nothingness warm as though it were animate flesh, vibrant with some ineluctable life, impenetrable as granite.

His flaming tongue struck sparks along her flesh, laving exquisitely each curve and swell and hollow, making her tremble with sensations so vibrant they hurt.

It is a vibrant mix of monuments and tombs, former palaces and tiny homes, hammams, and the Koranic schools called medersas, white domes and minarets.

I began noticing changes in our surroundings that indicated we were drawing nearer to our goal, namely, the trees lessening in proportions, the terrain becoming flatter, and the air growing moister and more vibrant.

He sat in a rocking chair out on the veranda, peering out at the vibrant green of the lawn and the majestic forms of the white oak trees that bracketed the front walk.

The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-high yellow boots.

There were no clouds that Jondalar could see, and he wondered what was causing the vibrant uniform color that reflected off the craggy pinnacles to the north, the rugged uplands across the river, and tinged the rippling water with the hue of blood.

The moonstone flashed as vibrant as ever, and, as she rolled it in her palm, she was suddenly wrenched by sobs of helplessness.