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Vibrant vs Energetic - What's the difference?

vibrant | energetic |

As adjectives the difference between vibrant and energetic

is that vibrant is pulsing with energy or activity while energetic is possessing, exerting, or displaying energy.

vibrant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pulsing with energy or activity
    • He has a vibrant personality.
  • Lively and vigorous
  • Vibrating, resonant or resounding
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1770 , title=The Empire of Love. / A Philosophical Poem. , journal=Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin , page=111 , publisher=T. Bensley, for J. White , author=Anthony Champion , passage=Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame;}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=The Singing of the Future , author=David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies , publisher=J. Lane , year=1905 , page=258 , passage=A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable}}
  • (of a colour) bright

    • Related terms

    * vibrate * vibration * vibrator

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    energetic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * energetick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Possessing, exerting, or displaying energy.
    • Cosmic rays are energetic particles from outer space.
    Those kids are so energetic : they want to run around playing all day.
  • Of or relating to energy.
    • energetic laws

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "energetic" is often applied: person, man, woman, child, life, material, particle, ion, healing, anatomy, etc. * Where non-English languages use an adjective analogous to "energetic", English often uses "energy" attributively: "energy efficiency" is much more common than "energetic efficiency".

    Derived terms

    * energetically