exuberant

Meaning

  1. Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
  2. (literary) Abundant, luxuriant.
  3. Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue

Frequency

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/
Etymology

From Middle French exubérant, from Latin exūberāns, the present active participle of exūberō (“be abundant”). Put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.

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