exuberant
/ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.97 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue
Example Sentences
- "exuberant feeling"
- "He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts."
- "She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face."
- "exuberant foliage"
- "It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green."
- "The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: exubérant, exūberāns
Usage
Inflected Forms
more exuberant (comparative)
most exuberant (superlative)