From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishexuberantex‧u‧be‧rant /ɪɡˈzjuːbərənt $ ɪɡˈzuː-/ adjective 1 HAPPYhappy and full of energy and excitement an exuberant personality2 HBPexuberant decorations, patterns etc are exciting and complicated or colourful exuberant carvings —exuberance noun [uncountable] She needs to try and control her natural exuberance. —exuberantly adverb
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exuberant• He is energetic and exuberant.• The prose is exuberant and knowingly exotic.• an exuberant celebration• And here, gaggles of exuberant fourth-graders begged for his autograph as if he were Pluto in Disneyland.• What she intended to be was gay, pleasure-giving, exuberant, free, beautiful, healthy.• The backplate of H-5 looks barren and bland compared to the exuberant frippery scrolled over the same part of H-4.• A similar process is also taking place in darts led by an exuberant Geordie commentator with a Cambridge History degree.• They were both totally naked and exuberant in their lovemaking.• Kip shot me an exuberant scowl.Origin exuberant (1400-1500) French Latin, present participle of exuberare “to exist in large quantities”, from uber “producing a lot”, from uber “udder” 