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exuberant
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  • Louie was seized by childlike, giddy exuberance.†  (source)
  • Real training meant watching, listening, diverting a dog's exuberance, not suppressing it.†  (source)
  • What I do know is that our exuberance didn't survive the car ride.†  (source)
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  • The audience applause, which was enthusiastic at each Naming, rose in an exuberant swell when one parental pair, glowing with pride, took a male newchild and heard him named Caleb.†  (source)
  • Sure, it bore a few marks testifying to the exuberance of its young owner.†  (source)
  • "Party up in the common room, Seamus said!" yelled Dean exuberantly.†  (source)
  • Learning came to Johnny automatically, as did all things: his able little fists, his healthy body, his startling good looks, his overexuberant vitality.†  (source)
    overexuberant = excessively joyful and unrestrained
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overexuberant means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
  • She found him, on the first Sunday after her return to town, pacing her narrow sitting-room to the imminent peril of the few knick-knacks with which she had tried to disguise its plush exuberances; but the sight of her seemed to quiet him, and he said meekly that he hadn't come to bother her—that he asked only to be allowed to sit for half an hour and talk of anything she liked.†  (source)
  • They seemed significantly less exuberant this morning.†  (source)
  • On Saturday morning, traffic flowed north toward Athens with the exuberance of a cavalry charge.†  (source)
  • He threw back his head and laughed, quietly as a whisper, but still exuberantly.†  (source)
  • Damien laughed and whispered, "Sorry, it's all so new to me that it's hard for me not to be a little overexuberant."†  (source)
  • I'd expected to be exuberant.†  (source)
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