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;}}

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, 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

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

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Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.

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In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; — opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct.

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# Being an active volcano.

Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; — opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert.

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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

Requiring or implying action or exertion;—opposed to sedentary or to tranquil.

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Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; — opposed to speculative or theoretical.

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Brisk; lively.

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Implying or producing rapid action.

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About verbs.

#Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.

#Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

#Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

(lb) (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.