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vim

UK/vɪm/

vim noun: ready vitality and vigour.

Noun

vim (uncountable)

  1. Ready vitality and vigour.
    • But he was, doubtless, totally unconscious that he was to be the chief personage in this most important story, or he would have acted out his real nature with all the vim and pathos which heroes always manifest in like circumstances.1843 August, “The Woodsman [Concluded.]”, in The Yale Literary Magazine: […], volume VIII, number 9, New Haven, Conn.: Published by the editors; printed by Hitchcock and Stafford, →OCLC, page 406
    • The Yankees fought with pluck to the last, but the vigor and vim of the attack was too much for them. They were Michigan men, and were quite indignant at being called "Yankees."1864, “Personne” [pseudonym; Felix Gregory DeFontaine], “A Spirited Dash into the Enemy’s Lines”, in Marginalia; or, Gleanings from an Army Note-book, Columbia, S.C.: Steam power-press of F. G....
    Synonyms:
    energy, go, pep, pizzazz, verve, zest

vim meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

vim in Tamil

உரம், சக்தி

vim in Urdu

جوش, روح, طاقت, طراری, توانائی, زور

vim in Kannada

ಕಸುವು, ಹುರುಪು

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Origin of vim

Possibly from Latin vim, accusative singular of vīs (“force, power, strength; (New Latin) energy, force”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”); compare English vis); but perhaps a modern expressive formation.

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Questions about vim

What does vim mean?
Vim means ready vitality and vigour.
What is vim in Tamil?
Vim in Tamil is உரம், சக்தி. See Vim meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vim?
Vim is a noun.
How do you pronounce vim?
Vim is pronounced /vɪm/ (UK).

Words near vim in the dictionary

  1. vilwas
  2. vily
  3. Vilyeyka
  4. Vilyui
  5. Vilyuy
  6. vim
  7. vim and vigor
  8. vim and vigour
  9. vim vitae
  10. Vima Mică
  11. vimana

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vim (page history and authors); vim (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vim (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vim (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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.

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