exuberant

adjective ex·u·ber·ant \ ig-ˈzü-b(ə-)rənt \

|Updated on: 15 Jun 2018

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Definition of exuberant

1 a : joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic

exuberant praise

an exuberant personality

b : unrestrained or elaborate especially in style : flamboyant

exuberant architecture

2 : produced in extreme abundance : plentiful

exuberant foliage and vegetation

3 : extreme or excessive in degree, size, or extent

exuberant prosperity

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Examples of exuberant in a Sentence

Steven Spielberg's career has been famously schizoid. On the one hand, he has made films borne aloft by exuberant juvenility (the Indiana Jones pictures, Jurassic Park, and so forth); on the other hand, he has made mature films of serious intent (The Color Purple, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan). And … there is also a third hand: he has combined those two types, most notably in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which he transmuted a fascinating science fiction film into near-theology. —Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic, 23 July 2001
Here we are at a jousting tournament in medieval England, and as the armored knights charge each other on horseback the exuberant crowd sings along to the old Queen heavy-metal anthem "We Will Rock You." And does the wave! —David Ansen, Newsweek, 14 May 2001
A few years ago, I learned to expect that at the end of a linguistics class that I was teaching, as I consulted with a few students before we vacated the room, the air would suddenly be lacerated by fat bass tracks and streams of exuberant invective. Tupac, as they say, was in the house. The class that was about to begin was an elective called "The Poetry of Tupac Shakur." —John McWhorter, New Republic, 22 Oct. 2001
They're the hardwood wunderkinds who think NEXT is now: the NBA's teen set. And like puppies, they're winningly exuberant (if not housebroken). Well, maybe not so "winning." —ESPN, 25 Dec. 2000
His exuberant personality makes him fun to be around.
exuberant crowds rushed to greet the returning national champions in collegiate basketball

Recent Examples of exuberant from the Web

He was clearly coached not to look too exuberant or joyous in the initial handshake or even when the two men sat for a photo op.

— chris cillizza, CNN, "4 takeaways from the historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un," 11 June 2018
In the soft-focus video, the whole crew lets loose at the beach, a combination of exuberant and silly.

— jon pareles, New York Times, "The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs," 8 June 2018
There are conversations on Pose that I’ve never been seen on mainstream scripted television; if the show is a little urgent, a little simple and exuberant in its messaging, so be it.

— richard lawson, HWD, "Pose Is Bold, Necessary Melodrama," 30 May 2018
But the exuberant, highly public approach of the Pride celebrations seems to have drawn authorities’ ire, said Azzi.

— Washington Post, "Lebanon LGBT scene empowered despite crackdown," 29 May 2018
Here to put today's events in perspective our historian Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who attended today's ceremonies in Jerusalem and must be exhausted, but exuberant.

— Fox News, "Sen. Rubio on whether Trump has reversed course on China," 16 May 2018
Sergey was exuberant, mercurial, strongly opinionated, and able to leap intellectual chasms in a single bound.

— john doerr, WIRED, "When John Doerr Brought a ‘Gift’ to Google’s Founders," 24 Apr. 2018
The true spectacle was not the highly talented pole dancer, however, nor the feather bikini clad strippers, but Lisa, a very drunk, very exuberant hotel guest.

— gigi engle, Marie Claire, "I Went to a Romantic Nudist Couples Resort With My Sister," 6 Apr. 2018
Which is a hallmark of Lee’s filmmaking at its best, how his exuberant need to communicate, lecture, and prod births films erratic in tone but powerful in their clamor and strong sense of purpose.

— richard lawson, HWD, "In Spike Lee’s Invigorating BlacKkKlansman, the Real Joke Is on Us," 14 May 2018

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Origin and Etymology of exuberant

Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin exuberant-, exuberans, present participle of exuberare to be abundant, from ex- + uber fruitful, from uber udder — more at udder

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First Known Use: 15th century

in the meaning defined at sense 3

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