ebullient
overflowing with cheerful enthusiasm and high spirits
Word origin: From Latin ebullire, to boil over.
Ebullient in a sentence
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She returned from her trip ebullient, eager to recount every detail.
The team returned from the championship in an ebullient mood, unable to stop recounting the final play.
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Using “ebullient” well
Ebullient conveys irrepressible, bubbling-over high spirits, more intense than merely happy. The image is of liquid boiling up, which underlies its sense of overflow.
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