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Tuesday March 30, 2010

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ebullient [ih-BUL-yuhnt]

adjective

1. Full of spirited enthusiasm or excitement.
2. Boiling up or over.

• From his opening selection, Duke Ellington's "Take the Coltrane," DeFrancesco reaffirmed his credentials. Ebullient right-hand lines, cleverly structured solos, give-and-take between the hands, shrewdly punctuated pauses -- nary a dramatic device went unused.
  Howard Reich, "A great organist transcends his band", Chicago Tribune, Jun 4, 2009
• The ebullient Sethna is a master salesman whose language is filled with descriptive marketing terms delivered in a persuasive manner in the promotion of his product: the University of West Georgia (UWG).
  Ed Lightsey, "A Marketing Strategy That Works", Georgia Trend, Jun 2009
• As it was, Mr. Darrah's ebullient wrath could find no adequate speech forms, and in the eloquent little pause Winton had time to smile up at Miss Carteret and to wish her the pleasantest of good-mornings.
  Francis Lynde (1856 - 1930) An American author. A Fool For Love (1898)

Origin of the Word

Ebullient , approximately 1599, derives from Latin ebullientem, present particple of ebullire "to spout out, burst out," from ex- "out" + bullire "to bubble"; boil.