Exuberant \Ex*u"ber*ant\, a. [L. exuberans, exuberantis, p. pr.
of exuberare to be abundant; ex + uberare to be fruitful, fr.
uber fruitful, fertile, uber udder: cf. F. exub['e]rant. See
Udder.]
Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous;
rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as,
exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant
foliage. "Exuberant spring." --Thomson. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
exuberant
adj 1: joyously unrestrained [syn: ebullient, high-spirited]
2: unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise";
"exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition";
"overweening greed" [syn: excessive, extravagant, overweening]
3: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
blooming" [syn: lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
175 Moby Thesaurus words for "exuberant":
ablaze, abounding, abundant, affluent, afire, all-sufficing, ample,
animated, antic, aplenty, ardent, balmy, blooming, blossoming,
boiling over, booming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brash,
breathless, burning, bursting, bursting out, capersome, clear,
coltish, copious, cordial, creative, delirious, dense, diffuse,
diffusive, drunk, ebullient, effervescent, effuse, effusive,
enthusiastic, epidemic, excited, exhaustless, extravagant, fair,
fat, febrile, fecund, fertile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish,
fiery, flaming, flourishing, flowering, flush, flushed, formless,
frisky, frolicsome, fructiferous, fruitful, fruiting, full,
full of beans, galore, gamesome, gay, generous, glowing,
going strong, gross, gushing, gushy, halcyon, hearty, heated,
heavy, high-spirited, hot, impassioned, impenetrable,
in full swing, in good case, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible,
intense, intoxicated, jungled, jungly, keen, lavish, liberal,
lively, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, numerous, on fire,
opulent, overflowing, overgrown, overrun, palmy, passionate,
piping, playful, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty,
pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive,
profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, prospering, rampant,
rank, red-hot, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich,
rife, riotous, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, rosy,
running over, seminal, skittish, sleek, spirited, sportive,
sprightly, steaming, steamy, superabundant, swarming, tautologous,
teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unrestrained, unweeded,
vigorous, vital, vivacious, warm, wealthy, weed-choked,
weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided,
well-stocked, wholesale, zealous, zestful, zippy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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