ebullient

Borrowing from Latin ēbulliēns, present participle of ēbulliō (“I boil”), from bulliō (“I bubble up”) (English boil). Compare bubbling, bubbly, and perky, which use a similar metaphor.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈbʊljənt/

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ebullient (comparative more ebullient, superlative most ebullient)

1. Enthusiastic; high-spirited.

   Synonym: zestful

   • 1908, Randall, James Ryder, “Ashes”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 45:

     The Spring will come with its ebullient blood, / With flush of roses and imperial eyes

   • 2001, Oates, Joyce Carol, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 233:

     Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons

   • 2003 February 28, Nick Hopkins, “Spectator and its Tory MP editor may face charges over Taki race rant”, in The Guardian‎, ISSN 0261-3077:

     Boris Johnson, the ebullient editor of the Spectator and Tory MP for Henley, is at the centre of a Scotland Yard inquiry over an allegedly racist article by the columnist Taki which provoked death threats against a leading black lawyer.

2. (literally, of a liquid) Boiling or agitated as if boiling.

   Synonyms: abubble, bubbly; see also Thesaurus:effervescent

• e-bulletin

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈbul.li.ent/, [eːˈbʊlːʲiɛn̪t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈbul.li.ent/, [eˈbulːien̪t̪]

ēbullient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēbulliō