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ebullient

/ɪˈbʊliənt/

ebullient adjective: enthusiastic; high-spirited.

Adjective

ebullient (comparative more ebullient, superlative most ebullient)

  1. Enthusiastic; high-spirited.
    • The Spring will come with its ebullient blood, / With flush of roses and imperial eyes1908, James Ryder Randall, “Ashes”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 45
    • Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 233
    Synonyms:
    zestful
  2. (archaic) Of a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.
  3. (archaic) Causing heat.
    • It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with...1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte...

ebullient meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

ebullient in Tamil

மிகுந்த உற்சாகமுள்ள, எழுச்சியார்வமிக்க, கொதிக்கும், பேருவகை கொண்டுள்ள

ebullient in Malayalam

buoyant, exuberant, cheerful
അത്യുത്സാഹമുള്ള, പ്രസരിപ്പുള്ള, ആഹ്ലാദത്തിമിർപ്പുള്ള, ഉത്സാഹത്തിമിർപ്പുള്ള, ഉത്സാഹഭരിതനായ, ആഹ്ലാദവനായ

ebullient in Kannada

ಕುದಿಯುವ, ಸಡಗರದ, ಹುರುಪಿನ

Examples of ebullient in a sentence

  • Ebullient and purposeful, Johnson rose quickly among the Foreign Service's small corps of China hands.
  • That the more joy we share, the more joy fills us, self-replenishingly, until it boils up ebullient and flows out effortlessly.
  • In interviews he speaks in endless, ebullient sentences that surround their subjects like spider's webs and sometimes suffocate them.

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Synonyms of ebullient

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Forms of ebullient

comparativemore ebullient
superlativemost ebullient

Origin of ebullient

Borrowing from Latin ēbulliēns, present participle of ēbulliō (“to boil”), from bulliō (“to bubble up”) (English boil). Compare bubbling, bubbly, and perky, which use a similar metaphor.

Words formed from ebullient

Questions about ebullient

What does ebullient mean?
Ebullient means enthusiastic; high-spirited.
What is ebullient in Tamil?
Ebullient in Tamil is மிகுந்த உற்சாகமுள்ள, எழுச்சியார்வமிக்க, கொதிக்கும். See Ebullient meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ebullient?
Ebullient is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ebullient?
Ebullient is pronounced /ɪˈbʊliənt/.

Words near ebullient in the dictionary

  1. ebulliating
  2. ebullience
  3. ebulliences
  4. ebulliencies
  5. ebulliency
  6. ebullient
  7. ebulliently
  8. ebulliometer
  9. ebulliometers
  10. ebulliometric
  11. ebulliometry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ebullient (page history and authors); ebullient (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ebullient (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ebullient (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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