ebullient

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Wyeth was ebullient, almost boyish (dressed, in fact, in a Robin Hood costume), as he discussed how his own past and the region's past fused in his technically brilliant but melancholy art:

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  1. adjective Zestfully enthusiastic.
  2. adjective Boiling or seeming to boil; bubbling.

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  • Top of her class at the Academy, ebullient, intelligent, Anne had been part of the team for over six months, and she had fitted in effortlessly. —  McNab, Claire - [Ashton -5] Dead Certain
  • His personality was ebullient, volatile and could be caustic. —  Dragons Dawn
  • He pulled the Gypsy to his feet and lumbered him about the gravel in an ebullient, clumsy dance. —  Title here
  • In a way, that is somewhat analogous to Obama, although you often hear people use the word "ebullient" with FDR. —  Bookslut
  • An "ebullient" Richardson bragged on April 17th about getting the Northern Alliance and the Taliban to agree to face-to-face-talks, and then sidestepped his failure to secure the extradition of Osama bin Laden, one of the goals of his trip .... —  The Jawa Report
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  1. Latin ēbulliēns, ēbullient-, present participle of ēbullīre, to bubble up : ē-, ex-, up, out; see ex- + bullīre, to bubble, boil.

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  1. from Latin ebullien(t-)s, present participle of ebullire, boil out or up, from e, out, + bullire, boil: see boil, v.
 

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