exuberant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Full of energy, excitement, and cheerful enthusiasm.

   The children were exuberant on the last day of school.

2. 2
   adj

   Growing or produced in rich abundance.

   The garden was a mass of exuberant foliage by midsummer.

Simplified etymology

Exuberant entered English in late Middle English through French exubérant from Latin exuberare, “be abundantly fruitful,” based on uber “fertile.” Its early senses were “overflowing” and “abounding”; the familiar sense “overflowing with delight” is recorded from the early 16th century.

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.

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