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exuberant
What does exuberant mean?
exuberant (adjective): joyously unrestrained.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use exuberant in a sentence?
- I was very exuberant. (Tatoeba sentence #6357180 by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce exuberant?
/ɪɡˈzubəɹənt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does exuberant come from?
From Middle French exubérant, from Latin exūberāns, the present active participle of exūberō (“be abundant”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to exuberant
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “exuberant” mean?
not likely to be true
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currently in progress
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susceptible to attack
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joyously unrestrained
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