Meaning

7 senses
  1. (in the plural, informal, often)An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.

    The couple canceled their night out when they got a bad vibe from the new babysitter.

    Vibe

    атмосфе́раatmosféra, а́ураáura, ва́йбvájb

    атмосфе́раatmosféra, а́ураáura, ва́йбvájb

  2. (informal, usually plural)Gut feeling, an impression based on intuition instead of solid data.

  3. Gut feeling, an impression based on intuition instead of solid data.

    (attributive, informal, usually plural)The use of AI to perform a task without expertise, generally without validating the output deeply.

  4. (informal)Something that is good, trendy, pleasant, or atmospheric; a thing or person with a good vibe.

  5. (colloquial, plural, plural only)A vibraphone.

    вибрафо́нvibrafón

  6. (informal)Vibration.

    Schwingung, Vibration

    вибра́цияvibrácija

  7. (informal)A vibrator (sex toy).

    Vibrator

    вибра́торvibrátor

More definitions
  • a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

Examples

72 sentences
  1. I'm getting bad vibes from him.

    Він на мене погано впливає. — shanghainese

  2. I am getting good vibes from this place.

    Це місце приваблює мене. — shanghainese

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  3. The house gave off strange vibes.

  4. Ziri got a very weird vibe.

  5. The house had an eerie vibe.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
atmosphere or aura:
Русский
By meaning 4
atmosphere or aura:
short for vibraphone:
vibration:
sex toy:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
atmosphere or aura:
vibration:
sex toy:

Origin

Apocopic form of vibration, vibrator, etc.

Apocopic form of vibration, vibrator, etc.

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Forms

plural: vibes
Singularvibe
Pluralvibes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively:vibration

Word family

12 related words

See also

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