Dictionary Definition
exuberant adj
1 joyously unrestrained [syn: ebullient, high-spirited]
2 unrestrained in especially feelings;
"extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening
ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn: excessive, extravagant, overweening]
3 produced or growing in extreme abundance;
"their riotous blooming" [syn: lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- In the context of "of people": Very high-spirited;
extremely energetic or
enthusiastic.
- 1882, Frank R.
Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?",
- 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.
- 1961, Joseph
Heller, Catch-22,
- She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
- 1882, Frank R.
Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?",
- In the context of "of things that grow": Abundant, luxuriant.
- 1972, Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden
History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22,
- The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.
- 1972, Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden
History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22,
Translations
people very high-spirited
- Portuguese: exuberante
things that grow abundant, luxuriant
- Portuguese: exuberante
- German: ausufernd
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ablaze,
abounding, abundant, affluent, afire, all-sufficing, ample, animated, antic, aplenty, ardent, balmy, blooming, blossoming, boiling over,
booming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brash, breathless, burning, bursting, bursting out,
capersome, clear, coltish, copious, cordial, creative, delirious, dense, diffuse, diffusive, drunk, ebullient, effervescent, effuse, effusive, enthusiastic, epidemic, excited, exhaustless, extravagant, fair, fat, febrile, fecund, fertile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flourishing, flowering, flush, flushed, formless, frisky, frolicsome, fructiferous, fruitful, fruiting, full, full of beans, galore, gamesome, gay, generous, glowing, going strong, gross, gushing, gushy, halcyon, hearty, heated, heavy, high-spirited, hot, impassioned, impenetrable, in full
swing, in good case, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, intense, intoxicated, jungled, jungly, keen, lavish, liberal, lively, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, numerous, on fire, opulent, overflowing, overgrown, overrun, palmy, passionate, piping, playful, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, prospering, rampant, rank, red-hot, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, rosy, running over, seminal, skittish, sleek, spirited, sportive, sprightly, steaming, steamy, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unrestrained, unweeded, vigorous, vital, vivacious, warm, wealthy, weed-choked,
weed-ridden, weedy,
well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, zealous, zestful, zippy