ebullient
pronunciation
How to pronounce ebullient in British English:
UK [ɪˈbʌliənt]
How to pronounce ebullient in American English:
US [ɪˈbʊljənt, ɪˈbʌl-]
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- Adjective:
- joyously unrestrained
Word Origin
- ebullient (adj.)
- 1590s, "boiling," from Latin ebullientem (nominative ebulliens), present participle of ebullire "to boil over," literally or figuratively, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + bullire "to bubble" (see boil (v.)). Figurative sense of "enthusiastic" is first recorded 1660s.
Example
- 1. Don 't fear , say the ebullient crowd of china-watchers .
- 2. Even lewis , that most ebullient of men , looked downcast .
- 3. She always says she made it through because she is ebullient .
- 4. She wrote the ebullient letter when she got back to her flat .
- 5. The leader of this side of the family then was muhammad bin laden 's eldest son , salem , an ebullient , guitar-playing graduate of an english boarding school .