Synonyms for ebullient
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : ih-buhl-yuh nt, ih-boo l- |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈbʌl yənt, ɪˈbʊl- |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for ebullient
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