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exuberant

/ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/

exuberant adjective: very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.

Adjective

exuberant (comparative more exuberant, superlative most exuberant)

  1. Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
    • exuberant feeling
    • 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.1882, Frank R. Stockton, The Lady or the Tiger?
  2. (literary) Abundant, luxuriant.
    • exuberant foliage
    • It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine
  3. Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue

exuberant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

exuberant in Tamil

பகட்டான, மிகையுணர்வான, வளமிகுந்த, வளம் பொங்கும்

exuberant in Urdu

فضول خرچ, وافر

exuberant in Bengali

প্রবল প্রাণশক্তিতে ভরপুর, উচ্ছ্বসিত

exuberant in Malayalam

ഉണർവ്വുള്ള, ധാരാളമായ, സമൃദ്ധമായ, പ്രസരിപ്പുള്ള
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exuberant in Kannada
ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಸಂತೋಷಚಿತ್ತನಾದ, ಲವ ಲವಿಕೆಯುಳ್ಳ, ಉದ್ರೇಕಗೊಳ್ಳುವ, ಪುಳಕಗೊಳ್ಳುವ
exuberant in Thai
ร่าเริง râa-rəəng, มีชีวิตชีวา, เบิกบาน bə̀ək-baan

Examples of exuberant in a sentence

  • She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-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

All 21 example sentences with exuberant

Synonyms of exuberant

All synonyms of exuberant

Forms of exuberant

comparativemore exuberant
superlativemost exuberant

Origin of exuberant

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.

Words formed from exuberant

Questions about exuberant

What does exuberant mean?
Exuberant means very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
What is exuberant in Tamil?
Exuberant in Tamil is பகட்டான, மிகையுணர்வான, வளமிகுந்த. See Exuberant meaning in Tamil.
How do you use exuberant in a sentence?
She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
What part of speech is exuberant?
Exuberant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce exuberant?
Exuberant is pronounced /ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/.

Words near exuberant in the dictionary

  1. extumescences
  2. exuberance
  3. exuberances
  4. exuberancies
  5. exuberancy
  6. exuberant
  7. exuberantly
  8. exuberantness
  9. exuberate
  10. exuberated
  11. exuberates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exuberant (page history and authors); exuberant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exuberant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exuberant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exuberant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exuberant (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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