Meaning

Enthusiastic; high-spirited..

Definitions by Sense

1. Enthusiastic; high-spirited.
2. (archaic) Of a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.
3. (archaic) Causing heat.

Example Sentences

The Spring will come with its ebullient blood, / With flush of roses and imperial eyes

Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons

Boris Johnson, the ebullient editor of the Spectator and Tory MP for Henley, is at the centre of a Scotland Yard inquiry over an allegedly racist article by the columnist Taki which provoked death threats against a leading black lawyer.

But now, as an ebullient Mr. Milei declares his government the most successful in history and assures Argentines they’ll soon collect on the economic revival he pledged would follow the pain, the bar is getting higher even as risks remain.

It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.

Word Forms

• more ebullient
• most ebullient

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