Vibrant vs Real - What's the difference?
vibrant | real |
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
True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
* 2007 , Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life: A Novel (ISBN 1429976438), page 179:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
* Milton:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
* Milton:
That has objective, physical existence.
(economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power .
(economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
(mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
(legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.
* Francis Bacon
Absolute, complete, utter.
(slang)
(US, colloquial) Really, very.
A commodity; see reality.
(grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
(mathematics) A real number.
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(obsolete) A realist.
Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
A coin worth one real.
A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942
A coin worth one real.
A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: .
* 2011 , Perry Anderson, "Lula's Brazil", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
A coin worth one real.
As adjectives the difference between vibrant and real
is that vibrant is pulsing with energy or activity while real is true, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.As an adverb real is
really, very.As a noun real is
a commodity; see reality.As a proper noun Real is
Real Madrid, a football club from Madrid.vibrant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He has a vibrant personality.
External links
* * ----real
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reel, from .Adjective
(en-adj)- [T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- Whose perfection far excelled / Hers in all real dignity.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
- a description of real life
- I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real , as the dream / Had lively shadowed.
- Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.
Synonyms
* true, actual * authentic, genuine, actual * authentic, genuine, heartfelt, true, actual * (that has physical existence) actualAntonyms
* imaginary, unreal * artificial, counterfeit, fake, sham * feigned, sham, staged * (that has physical existence) fictitious, imaginary, made-up, pretend (informal) * (relating to numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line) imaginaryDerived terms
* for real * get real * keep it real * real analysis * real asset * real axis * real body * real capital * real deal/the real deal * real estate * real focus * real image * real income * reality * real life * real line * really * real market * real matrix * real McCoy * realness * real number * real option * real part * real presence * real property * real return * real soon now * real storage * real stuff * real tennis * real thing/the real thing * real time * real-valued * real variable * real wages * real world/real-worldAdverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these prob-
lems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts'' and ''Cauchy Sequences , named
respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine
Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a
more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."
- (Burton)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(reales)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
Noun
(en-noun)- Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.