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effusive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective effusive has 2 senses
- effusive(s = adj.all) burbling, burbly, gushing - uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones" Derived form noun effusiveness1
- effusive(s = adj.all) gushing, gushy - extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
CIDE DICTIONARY
effusive, a.
- Pouring out; pouring forth freely. Pope. [1913 Webster]
- formed by an outpouring of molten lava, or pertaining to rocks so formed. [PJC]
- overly demonstrative; expressing emotion in an unrestrained manner; exhibiting unrestrained enthusiasm; -- of people and human actions; as, effusive thanks; an effusive letter of recommendation. Contrasted with
reserved . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
effusive, adj.
1 gushing, demonstrative, exuberant (effusive praise).
2 Geol. (of igneous rock) poured out when molten and later solidified, volcanic.
1 gushing, demonstrative, exuberant (effusive praise).
2 Geol. (of igneous rock) poured out when molten and later solidified, volcanic.
Derivative
effusively adv. effusiveness n.
THESAURUS
effusive
abundant, accessible, all jaw, approachable, candid, chatty, cloying, communicative, conversable, conversational, copious, demonstrative, diffuse, diffusive, ebullient, effluent, effused, emotional, expansive, extravagant, extravasated, extroverted, exuberant, fecund, flip, fluent, formless, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, fulsome, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushing, gushy, lavish, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, open, outbound, outflowing, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken, outward-bound, overenthusiastic, overflowing, overtalkative, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, rhapsodic, self-revealing, self-revelatory, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, smooth, sociable, superabundant, talkative, talky, tautologous, teeming, unchecked, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, verbose, voluble, windy
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