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Bursting with joy
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ebullient
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Word definitions for ebullient in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Supporters of the amendment were ebullient at the outcome of the vote. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A famously ebullient man, Fuller was initially stiff and uncomfortable as an actor. ▪ He is as good as his name, as wild, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "boiling," from Latin ebullientem (nominative ebulliens ), present participle of ebullire "to boil over," literally or figuratively, from ex- "out" (see ex- ) + bullire "to bubble" (see boil (v.)). Figurative sense of "enthusiastic" is first recorded ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. joyously unrestrained [syn: exuberant , high-spirited ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 enthusiastic; high-spirited. 2 (of a liquid) boiling or agitated as if boiling
Usage examples of ebullient.
Greg yanked the other end of the pole out of its socket with a burst of ebullient strength, tearing the netting as it came free.
She could hear the roar of the sea and taste its salt in the mist, and suddenly she felt a surge of wild, ebullient daring.
Isabella felt the ebullient mood of hope, which her brief interlude with Ramsey had raised, begin to evaporate.
I was naturally ebullient and listed the qualities an MP needs as good health, an enquiring mind, inexhaustible energy and a very thick skin.
After an ebullient reception, the students told how much the restoration of democracy meant after the Nazi and communist eras.
The doctor wore a white coat, but otherwise looked like an ebullient stick insect.
At Westferry two groups arrived, ebullient new City lads in modern fabrics who sang Abba songs against a competing group of what looked like nurses.
Left with nothing to do, Orney and Threader stood by, and Daniel was struck by the difference in their faces: Orney as ebullient as he was ever likely to get, Threader curiously distracted and rigid.
An amiable, relentlessly positive Midwesterner, Soderquist was nearly as ebullient in his enthusiasm for all things Wal-Mart as Walton himself.
Raskolnikov finds himself is then underlined by the visit to his only friend, the warmhearted, generous, ebullient Razumikhin, who was introduced earlier and obviously serves as a contrast to the introspective, gloomy, embittered Raskolnikov.
I backed the big heavy body and the thick red face for an apoplexy, yet they looked more like ebullient good health.
However ebullient Mike had been with Dan Frost over the Congden business, he had himself had misgivings about it.
Equally so Henschel, the bearded Nielsen, and the usually ebullient Breitenbach wore long faces.
The concierge, an ebullient Swiss whose eyes took in more than his lips would reveal, had left several minutes before, having delivered the petit dejeuner and the Zurich newspapers.
He shook his head, indicating that he was not projecting his ebullient mood.