ebullient adj : joyously unrestrained [syn: exuberant, high-spirited]

English

Etymology

from the Latin word, 'bullire', meaning "to bubble up"

Adjective

1. boiling, agitated, enthusiastic

Translations

• German: überschwenglich, übersprudelnd

Quotations

• Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons. - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 233)

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