exuberant

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective joyously unrestrained
  2. adjective unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
  3. adjective produced or growing in extreme abundance

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

ebullient, high-spirited

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