Exuberant vs Vibrant - What's the difference?
exuberant | vibrant |
(of people) Very high-spirited; extremely energetic and enthusiastic.
* 1882 , , "The Lady or the Tiger?":
* 1961 , , Catch-22 :
(of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant, profuse, superabundant.
* 1972 , Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22:
Pulsing with energy or activity
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
As adjectives the difference between exuberant and vibrant
is that exuberant is very high-spirited; extremely energetic and enthusiastic while vibrant is pulsing with energy or activity.exuberant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
- She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
- The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----vibrant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He has a vibrant personality.
