Exuberant
//ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt// adj
adj ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
"exuberant feeling"
- 2 Abundant, luxuriant. literary
"exuberant foliage"
- 3 Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue
Adjective
- 1 produced or growing in extreme abundance wordnet
- 2 unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings wordnet
- 3 joyously unrestrained wordnet
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More examples"The trees have exuberant foliage."
Etymology
From Middle French exubérant, 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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