Exuberant
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English
Adjective
Exuberant (comparative more Exuberant, superlative most Exuberant)
- (of people) Very high-spirited; extremely energetic or enthusiastic.
- 1882, Frank R. Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?",
- He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
- 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22,
- She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
- 1882, Frank R. Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?",
- (of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant, profuse, superabundant.
- 1972, Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22,
- The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.
- 1972, Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22,
Adverbs for Exuberant
gloriously; fantastically; profusely; prodigally; excessively; inordinately; uncommonly; oddly; immensely.
Synonyms for Exuberant
overflowing, profuse, energetic, lavish, abundant, rank, prolific, luxuriant, copious, vigorous, wanton.
Antonyms for Exuberant
sterile, austere, barren, needy, depleted.
Thesaurus
ablaze, abounding, abundant, affluent, afire, all-sufficing, ample, animated, antic, aplenty, ardent, balmy, blooming, blossoming, boiling over, booming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brash, breathless, burning, bursting, bursting out, capersome, clear, coltish, copious, cordial, creative, delirious, dense, diffuse, diffusive, drunk, ebullient, effervescent, effuse, effusive, enthusiastic, epidemic, excited, exhaustless, extravagant, fair, fat, febrile, fecund, fertile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flourishing, flowering, flush, flushed, formless, frisky, frolicsome, fructiferous, fruitful, fruiting, full, full of beans, galore, gamesome, gay, generous, glowing, going strong, gross, gushing, gushy, halcyon, hearty, heated, heavy, high-spirited, hot, impassioned, impenetrable, in full swing, in good case, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, intense, intoxicated, jungled, jungly, keen, lavish, liberal, lively, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, numerous, on fire, opulent, overflowing, overgrown, overrun, palmy, passionate, piping, playful, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, prospering, rampant, rank, red-hot, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, rosy, running over, seminal, skittish, sleek, spirited, sportive, sprightly, steaming, steamy, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unrestrained, unweeded, vigorous, vital, vivacious, warm, wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, zealous, zestful, zippy
Etymology
From Latin exūberāns, the present active participle of exūberō (“be abundant”). Put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.
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References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Latin
Verb
exūberant
- third-person plural present active indicative of exūberō
