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Exuberant   /ɪgzˈubərənt/   Listen
Exuberant

adjective
1.
Joyously unrestrained.  Synonyms: ebullient, high-spirited.
2.
Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.  Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, overweening.  "Exuberant compliments" , "Overweening ambition" , "Overweening greed"
3.
Produced or growing in extreme abundance.  Synonyms: lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous.






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"Exuberant" Quotes from Famous Books



... natural enough that the gardener should be filled with exuberant delight at the return of so gracious a master and mistress and how strangely childlike they looked! I could have taken them for Sylvie and Bruno less natural that he should show it by such wild dances, ...
— Sylvie and Bruno • Lewis Carroll

... and the front of the neck, and a gauze wedge firmly inserted over this to the depths of the tracheotomic wound, all of this dressing being held in place by a bandage. If the skin-wound heals before the fibrous union of the tracheal cartilages is complete, exuberant granulations are apt to form and occlude the trachea, perhaps necessitating a new tracheotomy ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... 'clock when she arrived at the studio, and, ringing the bell, mounted the well-known stairs with a heart which, in spite of herself, beat anxiously. Stefan opened the door irritably, but his frown changed to a look of astonishment, followed by an exuberant smile, as he ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

... we held reunion in a cafe off the Boulevard Clichy. There I first discerned the slightness of her frame and marveled at the spirit that filled it. She was exuberant in the joy of meeting a countryman and, with the device of laughter, she kept in check the sadness which never quite came welling up ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams

... country's joy was less exuberant. There were so many other things to think of nearer home; among them the British defeat at Fontenoy and the landing of the Young Pretender. Nor was the actual victory without alloy; for prescient people ...
— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood


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