exuberant

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
21
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/

Definition of exuberant

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
    “exuberant feeling”
    “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.”
    “She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.”
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adj

  1. Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
    “exuberant feeling”
    “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.”
    “She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.”
  2. (literary)Abundant, luxuriant.
    “exuberant foliage”
    “It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.”
    “The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.”
  3. Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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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