Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy.
- adjective Unrestrained or lavish, as in decoration; extravagant.
- adjective Abundant; plentiful: synonym: profuse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by abundance; copious to excess; overflowing; superabundant; luxuriant: as, exuberant fertility; exuberant imagination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of people Very
high-spirited ; extremelyenergetic andenthusiastic . - adjective of things that grow
Abundant ,luxuriant ,profuse ,superabundant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
- adjective produced or growing in extreme abundance
- adjective joyously unrestrained
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mr. Barker admired what he called her exuberant vitality, and expressed his opinion that people with a digestion like that were always having a good time.
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Whether we'll get back to what I call exuberant of the past, I don't know.
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Chavez and his cronies live in exuberant luxury, they love their privileges, ferraris and desinger clothing.
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Once Tribble returned the kickoff to the BC 37 for the final play, the Wolfpack sideline spilled onto the field in exuberant celebration.
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Surreal lamppost sculptures, "Composition Exubérante de Réverbères Hybrides," by Niçois artists Pascal Pinaud and Stéphane Magnin, are true to their name -- in English, exuberant hybrid streetlamps -- and light up the university quarter of Saint-Jean d'Angely.
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I'll leave you with a funny Emily quote (she has a new obsession with the word exuberant):
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His poetry appears in exuberant colours and only rarely takes on the character of melodious music; but it is all the more plastic in the creation of forms suited to expressing feelings and ideas.
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The crowd followed us to the boat, and shouted and waved in exuberant Papuan style as we sailed away; while the Arabs, incongruous amid their surroundings – gay for the day in long white flowing robes, broidered vests, and bright-coloured turbans – stood on the very edge, watching us as far as they could see us, with evident sadness that their short intercourse with the outer world had already ended.
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"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this point in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities," she said, flanked by her husband, Todd, and members of their family -- whom she described as exuberant supporters of her resignation.
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Having decorated my room as a teenager with these kind of posters, I’m a sucker for pyschedelia, but what really struck me about the display was the word exuberant’ in the exhibition title.
writer723 commented on the word exuberant
exuberant:
–adjective
Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy. Lavish; extravagant.
Extreme in degree.
April 17, 2011