Entry Word: exuberant

Function: adjective

Meaning: joyously unrestrained <exuberant crowds rushed to greet the returning national champions in collegiate basketball>

Synonyms bubbly, buoyant, effervescent, frolicsome, high-spirited, vivacious

Related Words extroverted (also extraverted), outgoing, uninhibited; carefree, insouciant, joyful, lighthearted, lively, sprightly; boisterous, raucous, rollicking, rowdy; giddy, light-headed, silly; ecstatic, euphoric, rapturous; audacious, bold, brash, brazen, impertinent, impudent, insolent, saucy

Near Antonyms constrained, inhibited, repressed, restrained, subdued; impassive, phlegmatic, stoic (or stoical), stolid; depressed, dour, glum, morose, surly

Antonyms low-spirited, noneffervescent, sullen