Definition of ebullient
2 : characterized by ebullience : having or showing liveliness and enthusiasm ebullient performers
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Recent Examples of ebullient from the Web
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In writer-director Terence Davies' film, Ehle plays Vinnie, the ebullient sister of poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon).
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Konstantin Anisimov, a burly, dark-haired, ebullient man, is Anisimova’s primary coach.
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If so many schools hadn’t celebrated Obama’s two elections with rallies, songs of homage and ebullient videos.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters MIAMI—Enrique Sepulveda, an ebullient second-year student at the kaleidoscopically diverse Miami Dade College here, usually thinks of himself as a Republican.
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That, in fact, is a pretty good description of Wolfe’s aim with Shuffle—to reach into the past and bring back to life the ebullient spirit of a groundbreaking hit musical.
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Newton, 26, an ebullient, intelligent, gifted quarterback, decided to act in his moment of truth like a 13-year-old.
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That's just the lad's skittish modesty, and even that rings ebullient, not false.
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His new quintet features the ebullient trombonist Wycliffe Gordon.
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Did You Know?
Someone who is ebullient is bubbling over with enthusiasm, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the adjective ebullient derives from the Latin verb ebullire, which means "to bubble out." (The stem bullire is an ancestor of our word boil and derives from bulla, the Latin word for "bubble.") In its earliest known uses in English in the late 1500s, ebullient was used in the sense of "boiling" or "bubbling" that might have described a pot simmering on the stove. Only later did the word's meaning broaden to encompass emotional agitation (particularly of the exuberant kind) in addition to the tempestuous roiling of a boiling liquid.
Origin and Etymology of ebullient
Latin ebullient-, ebulliens, present participle of ebullire to bubble out, from e- + bullire to bubble, boil — more at boil
First Known Use: 1599
EBULLIENT Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of ebullient for English Language Learners
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: lively and enthusiastic
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