vibe

[vahyb]

noun

1. Often vibes a general feeling or sensation that someone gets or has about something.

   She had mixed vibes about the merger decision, and serious reservations about the acting CEO.

2. Sometimes vibes the character, quality, or atmosphere of a place, situation, etc.; ambiance.

   The bar has an outdoor junkyard vibe, with kegs for stools, tires hanging on the fences, and plastic chairs.

   Try to find plants that fit your vibe at home—succulents for a Southwest feel, or air plants for the minimalist.

3. connection; rapport.

   Sometimes you have a good vibe with someone, but then it just goes nowhere.

4. none vibes vibraphone.

5. vibrator.

verb (used without object)

1. to spend relaxed, unstructured time (often followed bywith ).

   I spent most of my time creating stuff, laughing, and vibing with my buddies.

2. be compatible; be in agreement or harmony (followed bywith ).

   I'm looking for someone I can vibe with on a spiritual and intellectual level.

   Live performance is all about vibing with the audience; the energy is different when you move from the studio to a stage.

vibe

/ vaɪb /

noun

1. slang,  a feeling or flavour of the kind specified

   a 1970s vibe

Word History and Origins

Origin of vibe¹

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; by shortening

Word History and Origins

Origin of vibe¹

from _vibration

Example Sentences

“I was really enjoying the vibe of ‘no rules,’” Perkins says.

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With her long, frizzy hair, musicality and earth-mother vibe, Ms. King fit in, though she was comparatively unfree, being “a single mother when most of the women around her were not.”

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As high-tech as the home may be, it still has the same elegant yet comfortable family vibe that Harris and Burtka added when they lived there with their twins.

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"Now we are working more as a team rather than individuals and we are going to continue that going forward, and carrying a positive vibe through. "

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If you wanted a “vibe shift” last year, you really got one.

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