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Fresh vs Vibrant - What's the difference?

fresh | vibrant |

As adjectives the difference between fresh and vibrant

is that fresh is newly produced or obtained while vibrant is pulsing with energy or activity.

As a noun fresh

is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

fresh

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)
  • Newly produced or obtained.
    • He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
    I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
  • Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.
    • After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
    I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
    a glass of fresh milk
  • (of plant material) Still green and not dried.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • Refreshing or cool.
    • What a nice fresh breeze.
  • (of water) Without salt; not saline.
    • After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
  • * (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:
    • There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,
  • * 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:
    • When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;
  • * 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:
    • Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.
  • Rested; not tired or fatigued.
  • * '>citation
    • Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
  • In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
    • a fresh hand on a ship
  • youthful; florid
  • * Shakespeare
    • these fresh nymphs
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * stale
    Derived terms
    * afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshing

    Noun

    (freshes)
  • A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
  • * 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:
    • They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.
  • A stream or spring of fresh water.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.
  • The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
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    • Etymology 2

    1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
    • No one liked his fresh comments.
  • Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
    • Hey, don't get fresh with me!
    Derived terms
    * fresher * freshness * get fresh
    Synonyms
    * See also

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    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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