'Ebullient' definitions:
Definition of 'ebullient'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Joyously unrestrained [syn: ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited]
Definition of 'Ebullient'
From: GCIDE
- Ebullient \E*bul"lient\, a. [L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st Boil.] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ebullient'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- active,
- activist,
- activistic,
- agog,
- alive,
- animated,
- aquiver,
- ardent,
- aroused,
- atingle,
- atwitter,
- baking,
- beaten,
- blebby,
- blistered,
- blistering,
- blistery,
- boiling,
- bouncing,
- bouncy,
- brash,
- breezy,
- brisk,
- broiling,
- bubbling,
- bubbly,
- burbling,
- burbly,
- burning,
- burning hot,
- bursting,
- canicular,
- carbonated,
- carried away,
- chiffon,
- chipper,
- effervescent,
- energetic,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- feverish,
- fired,
- fizzy,
- flushed,
- frisky,
- full of go,
- full of life,
- full of pep,
- grilling,
- heated,
- high,
- high-spirited,
- hopped up,
- hot,
- hot as fire,
- hot as hell,
- impassioned,
- inflamed,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- like a furnace,
- like an oven,
- live,
- lively,
- manic,
- mercurial,
- militant,
- moved,
- overheated,
- overwarm,
- parching,
- peppy,
- perky,
- pert,
- piping hot,
- puffed,
- quicksilver,
- ready to burst,
- red-hot,
- roasting,
- roused,
- scalding,
- scorching,
- searing,
- seething,
- simmering,
- sizzling hot,
- smacking,
- smoking hot,
- snappy,
- souffle,
- souffleed,
- spanking,
- sparkling,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- spry,
- spumescent,
- steamed up,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- sudorific,
- sweating,
- sweaty,
- sweltering,
- sweltry,
- thrilled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- toasting,
- torrid,
- turned-on,
- vesicant,
- vesicated,
- vesicatory,
- vesicular,
- vivacious,
- whipped,
- whipped up,
- white-hot,
- worked up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty,
- zingy