vibrant

Etymology

From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate.

adj

1. Pulsing with energy or activity.
   He has a vibrant personality.
2. Lively and vigorous.
3. Vibrating, resonant or resounding.
   Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame; 1770, Anthony Champion, “The Empire of Love. / A Philosophical Poem.”, in Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin, T. Bensley, for J. White, page 111
   A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable 1905, David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies, The Singing of the Future, J. Lane, page 258
4. (of a colour) Bright.

noun

1. (phonetics) Any of a class of consonants including taps and trills.