ebullient

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Latin bullire (“to bubble up”) (English boil). Compare bubbling, bubbly, and perky, which give a similar image.

[edit] Adjective

ebullient (comparative more ebullient, superlative most ebullient)

  1. boiling, agitated, enthusiastic, high-spirited
    • Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons. - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 233)

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[edit] Translations

boiling, agitated

[edit] Latin

[edit] Verb

ēbullient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēbulliō
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