exuberant
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- joyously unrestrained
- unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
- "exuberant compliments"
- produced or growing in extreme abundance
Adj
- Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
- Abundant, luxuriant.
- Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
buoyant, cheerful, ebullient, excessive, extravagant, high-spirited, lush, luxuriant, overweening, profuse, riotous, superabundant
Scrabble Score: 18
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