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exuberant

Entry Word:: exuberant
Function:: adjective

Text: joyously unrestrained <exuberant crowds rushed to greet the returning national champions in collegiate basketball> Synonymsbubbly, buoyant, effervescent, frolicsome, high-spirited, vivacious Related Wordsextroverted (also extraverted), outgoing, uninhibited; carefree, insouciant, joyful, lighthearted, lively, sprightly; boisterous, raucous, rollicking, rowdy; giddy, light-headed, silly; ecstatic, euphoric, rapturous; audacious, bold, brash, brazen, impertinent, impudent, insolent, saucy Near Antonymsconstrained, inhibited, repressed, restrained, subdued; impassive, phlegmatic, stoic (or stoical), stolid; depressed, dour, glum, morose, surly Antonymslow-spirited, noneffervescent, sullen

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