Complete Definition of "ebullient"

English
Etymology
from the Latin word, 'bullire', meaning "to bubble up"
Adjective
en-adj

  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 w:Joyce Carol Oates|Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 233)

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