exuberant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.

   exuberant feeling

2. 2
   adj

   Abundant, luxuriant.

   exuberant foliage

3. 3
   adj

   produced or growing in extreme abundance

4. 4
   adj

   unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

5. 5
   adj

   joyously unrestrained

6. 6
   adj

   Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue

Etymology

From Middle French exubérant, from Latin exūberāns, the present active participle of exūberō (“be abundant”). Put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.