ebullient

[ ih-buhl-yuhnt, ih-bool- ]

adjective

1. overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited:

   The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.

2. bubbling up like a boiling liquid:

   ebullient lava streaming down the mountainside.

ebullient

/ ɪˈbʌljənt; ɪˈbʊl- /

adjective

1. overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; exuberant
2. boiling

Derived Forms

• eˈbulliently, adverb
• eˈbullience, noun

Other Words From

• e·bullient·ly adverb
• none·bullient adjective
• none·bullient·ly adverb
• une·bullient adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ebullient¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin ēbullient- (stem of ēbulliēns “boiling up,” present participle of ēbullīre ), equivalent to ē- + bulli- (derivative of bulla “a bubble”) + -ent-; e- ¹, boil ¹( def ), -ent

Word History and Origins

Origin of ebullient¹

C16: from Latin ēbullīre to bubble forth, be boisterous, from bullīre to boil ¹

Example Sentences

Visitors are apt to find ebullient owner Jackie Moffatt, whose husband’s great-great-grandfather founded the shop, overseeing the space crammed with baking ingredients, old-fashioned toys, candles and retro gifts.

From Washington Post

Desmond Mpilo Tutu, who died this week of cancer at the age of 90, was the ebullient hero of the struggle against apartheid and the quest for freedom in South Africa.

From Time

Sitting with a view over the city skyline, Khan is clearly feeling ebullient, despite the crises facing London.

From Time

“With investors ebullient on expectations for a strong rebound, it is important to closely monitor risks to the system and ensure the financial system is resilient,” Fed Governor Lael Brainard said in a statement accompanying Thursday’s report.

From Washington Post

It’s harder to build a show around an unflappably optimistic character, as Parks and Recreation did with the ebullient Leslie Knope.

From Time

As that huge crowd headed back to their buses and cars and trains, the mood was ebullient.

From The Daily Beast

Black Oxen is a reminder of the healthy benefits of cynicism, and in retrospect served as an early warning to an ebullient age.

From The Daily Beast

They were ebullient, he remembered, and at one point the new congressman took the reporter aside and sought his counsel.

From The Daily Beast

It nonetheless remains no more impossible than a rainbow rising ebullient from the solemn depths of a memorial pool.

From The Daily Beast

Young men in keffiyehs, middle-aged folks with backpacks, and ebullient women marched around the Wall Street Bull.

From The Daily Beast

Strangely enough the voice, though well-known, seemed to have a sobering effect on all these ebullient tempers.

From Project Gutenberg

They are what kings and priests were of old, they who have the power of bridling ebullient energies and turning them to use.

From Project Gutenberg

With an ebullient sense of eloquence, of extravagant oratory, I longed for a sympathetic ear.

From Project Gutenberg

It is to be brisk, brief, brave and ebullient—to meet the modification all must reckon with—the screen-trained mind.

From Project Gutenberg

The centres of civilization seethe, as it were, and are ebullient with the agitation of the self-questioning heart.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• agitated
• brash
• buoyant
• chipper
• effervescent
• effusive
• elated
• exuberant
• irrepressible