brio
/ˈbɹiːoʊ/
brio noun: vigour or vivacity.
Noun
brio (uncountable)
- Vigour or vivacity.
- He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Part II Chapter I
- And as if to undermine their authority still further, Welsh Philpott in his innocence has made the error of placing Rick beside the pulpit in the very spot from which in the past he has read us the day's lesson with such brio and persuasion.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
brio meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
brio in Tamil
- உற்சாகம், ஆர்வம்
brio in Malayalam
- vivacity, vigour, gusto
- ഊർജ്ജസ്വലത, വിടങ്ങ്, പൗരുഷം, ചൊടി, ഉത്സാഹം, ഊറ്റം
Origin of brio
From Italian brio (“finesse, talent”), from Spanish brío, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brīgos.
Phrases with brio
Questions about brio
- What does brio mean?
- Brio means vigour or vivacity.
- What is brio in Tamil?
- Brio in Tamil is உற்சாகம், ஆர்வம். See Brio meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is brio?
- Brio is a noun.
- How do you pronounce brio?
- Brio is pronounced /ˈbɹiːoʊ/.
Words near brio in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: brio (page history and authors); brio (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brio (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-brio.wav.
Cite this entry: “brio.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/brio. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.