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effusive

/ɪˈfjuːsɪv/

effusive adjective: gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).

Adjective

effusive (comparative more effusive, superlative most effusive)

  1. Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
    • effusive praise
    • All week I’ve found myself doing everything I can to distance myself in the crew’s eyes from the bovine herd I’m part of, to somehow unimplicate myself: I eschew cameras and sunglasses and pastel Caribbeanwear; I make a big deal of carrying my own cafeteria tray and am effusive in my thanks for the...1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group
    Synonyms:
    gushy
  2. (archaic) Pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing.
    • wash'd with the effusive wave1726, Homer, “Book XXII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume V, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC
  3. Extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava.

effusive meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

effusive in Malayalam

ധാരാളമായ, ഉരുകി ഒലിച്ച് പിന്നീട് കട്ടിപിടിച്ച

effusive in Kannada

ಹೊರಹೊಮ್ಮುವ, ತುಂಬಿತುಳುಕುವ, ಉಕ್ಕುವ, ಹೊಮ್ಮುವ, ದ್ರವಿಸುವ, ಚಿಮ್ಮುವ

Synonyms of effusive

Forms of effusive

comparativemore effusive
superlativemost effusive

Origin of effusive

Borrowed from Medieval Latin effūsīvus, 1660s.

Words formed from effusive

Questions about effusive

What does effusive mean?
Effusive means gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
What is effusive in Malayalam?
Effusive in Malayalam is ധാരാളമായ, ഉരുകി ഒലിച്ച് പിന്നീട് കട്ടിപിടിച്ച. See Effusive meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is effusive?
Effusive is an adjective.
How do you pronounce effusive?
Effusive is pronounced /ɪˈfjuːsɪv/.

Words near effusive in the dictionary

  1. effusing
  2. effusiometer
  3. effusiometers
  4. effusion
  5. effusions
  6. effusive
  7. effusively
  8. effusiveness
  9. effusivenesses
  10. effusivities
  11. effusivity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: effusive (page history and authors); effusive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); effusive (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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