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Definition of Exuberant

1. Adjective. Joyously unrestrained.

2. Adjective. Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings. "Overweening greed"

3. Adjective. Produced or growing in extreme abundance. "Their riotous blooming"

Definition of Exuberant

1. a. Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage.

Definition of Exuberant

1. Adjective. (context: of people) Very high-spirited; extremely energetic and enthusiastic. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant, profuse, superabundant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exuberant

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Exuberant

1. Characterised by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage. "Exuberant spring." Exu"berantly. Origin: L. Exuberans, exuberantis, p. Pr. Of exuberare to be abundant; ex + uberare to be fruitful, fr. Uber fruitful, fertile, uber udder: cf. F. Exuberant. See Udder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exuberant

extuberances extuberancies extuberancy extuberant extuberate extuberated extuberates extuberating extuberation extuberations

extumescence extumescences exuberance exuberances exuberancy exuberant (current term) exuberantly exuberate exuberated exuberates

exuberating exuccous exudate exudate cell exudates exudation exudation cell exudation corpuscle exudation cyst exudations

Literary usage of Exuberant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"exuberant Sherlock and Eleven other English are presented to Friedrich on a Court Occasion (8th October); and Two of them get spoken to, and speak each a ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... the exuberant erratic Sherlock, once more, and once only, emerging on us for a few moments !— exuberant Sherlock and Eleven other English are presented ..."

3. Play in Education by Joseph Lee (1915)
"CHAPTER XXXIII exuberant PLAY THE play of childhood is purposeful: it is so in its characteristic manifestations and in by far its greater part, ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"We know he had not the distinction of Thackeray, the exuberant genius of Dickens, or the vivid and vehement force of Charles Reade; but not seldom he is ..."

5. English Reader by Lindley Murray (1840)
"10 The exuberant and overflowing goodness of the Supreme Being, whose mercy extends to all hie works, is plainly seen, as I have before hinted, ..."

6. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... exuberant, REDUNDANT, SUPERFLUOUS, SEEM to run up into a climax of plenitude, beft explained by a trifling example; ..."

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