Exuberant
[ɪg'z(j)uːb(ə)r(ə)nt;eg-]
Definition
(adj.) produced or growing in extreme abundance; 'their riotous blooming' .
Typist: Trevor--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage.
Typist: Robinson
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Over-abundant, rank, copious, plenteous, full, plentiful, ample, replete, liberal, lavish.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABUNDANT]
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Definition
adj. plenteous: overflowing: happy: lavish.—ns. Exū′berance Exū′berancy quality of being exuberant: an overflowing quantity: superfluousness: outburst.—adv. Exū′berantly.—v.i. Exū′berāte to be exuberant.
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Examples
- Not a little of the revolt was an exuberant rebellion for its own sake. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She would look at him at a distance with the same rapture, (O, far more exuberant rapture! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She had rejected these advances; and the time for such exuberant submission, which must be founded on love and nourished by it, was now passed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- On the contrary, I can never recollect having seen him in such exuberant spirits. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- None of the exuberant versions of things Edison has not done could endure for a moment with the simple narrative of what he has really done as the world's new Purveyor of Pleasure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At such times the more exuberant among them called out in an excited manner on our emergence round some corner of expectancy, Here they come! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How impossible was it to sleep, in the exuberant possession of such blessedness! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Under pretence of pruning off the exuberant branches, he would be apt to destroy the tree. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I am so filled with surprise and exuberant delight at seeing you safe and well again that I scarcely know what I am saying, really. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Now for the Trenors, you remember, he chose the Corinthian: exuberant, but based on the best precedent. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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