Vim
Pronunciation
- IPA: /vɪm/
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Origin
1843, possibly from the Latin vim, accusative of vis ("power, energy") (from which English vis); perhaps a modern imitative of the Latin.
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Full definition of vim
Noun
vim
(plural vims)- Ready vitality and vigor.
- 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, p. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young…