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Antonyms for ebullient

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ih-buhl-yuh nt, ih-boo l-
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈbʌl yənt, ɪˈbʊl-

Definition of ebullient

Origin :
  • 1590s, "boiling," from Latin ebullientem (nominative ebulliens), present participle of ebullire "to boil over," literally and figuratively, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + bullire "to bubble" (see boil (v.)). Figurative sense of "enthusiastic" is first recorded 1660s.
  • adj enthusiastic
Example sentences :
  • Thus was it with the ebullient folk of Dodge on the dry occasion of Prohibition.
  • Extract from : « The Sunset Trail » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • The son, a young man of ebullient manner, greeted me in the courtyard.
  • Extract from : « Autobiography of a YOGI » by Paramhansa Yogananda
  • They were arm in arm, full of happiness, full of the ebullient consciousness of their release.
  • Extract from : « The Hills of Refuge » by Will N. Harben
  • As a primary step he was obliged to suppress his ebullient brother-in-law.
  • Extract from : « The President » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • Strangely enough the voice, though well-known, seemed to have a sobering effect on all these ebullient tempers.
  • Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • The ebullient kettle kept lifting its lid in growing impatience.
  • Extract from : « The Pretty Lady » by Arnold E. Bennett
  • Indeed, intemperance seemed only to make him more light-hearted, ebullient, and Brobdingnagian.
  • Extract from : « Interpreters » by Carl Van Vechten
  • He was extremely nervous and extremely jealous of other tenors and he covered his nervous jealousy with an ebullient friendliness.
  • Extract from : « Dubliners » by James Joyce
  • As he stood beside the bridal pair he seemed almost too festive, too estival, too ebullient for this poor earth of ours.
  • Extract from : « On the Stairs » by Henry B. Fuller
  • In the Ebullient period it is chiefly distinguished by head-dress and the total abolition of stays.
  • Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 » by Various

Synonyms for ebullient

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