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Definition of Ebullient
1. Adjective. Joyously unrestrained.
Similar to: Spirited
Derivative terms: Ebullience, Exuberance, Exuberate, High-spiritedness
Definition of Ebullient
1. a. Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.
Definition of Ebullient
1. Adjective. boiling, agitated, enthusiastic, high-spirited ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ebullient
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebullient
Literary usage of Ebullient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... flashes, and electrical apparitions from the magic caldron of a fervid and
ebullient fancy, constantly fuelled by an unexampled opulence of language. ..."
2. Fifty Years of an Actors̓ Life by John Coleman (1904)
"Another Coleman in the Field — Enter Barry Sullivan and Bob Brough—The Magnificent
Mrs. John Brougham and the Excellent Mrs. Charles Selby—The ebullient ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"which surely justifies itself, yet it could not keep ite place. Crabb Robinson
notes in his diary, 1815, " Wordsworth has substituted ebullient ..."
4. Transcripts and Studies by Edward Dowden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"1815, "Wordsworth has substituted ebullient for_/ier?/, speaking of the nightingale.
' O Nightingale, thou surely art A creature of a fiery heart,' and ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society by Cambridge Philological Society (1884)
"'strong ebullience,' from adj. e-yis-ro-s 'strongly ebullient,' fr. e and yes-ro-,
adj. stem = 'ebullient,' akin to £«o; sobrius assimilated to ebrius fr. ..."
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