Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an exuberant manner; very copiously; superabundantly; luxuriantly: as, the earth has produced exuberantly.

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  • adverb In an exuberant manner

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  • adverb in an ebullient manner
  • adverb in an exuberant manner

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Examples

  • They went out of the pavilion hand in hand, and on through the sunshine they strolled, swinging hands gaily, reacting exuberantly from the week of deadening toil.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • The Lady Boys of Bangkok, or the sound of them and their audience at least, rising exuberantly from the theatre next door to contend with the wisdom of the later panelists: a vaguely fantastical backdrop to musings on fantasy.

    Brian Ruckley · Alt.Fiction 2008: Getting There, Being There, Getting Back 2008

  • They went out of the pavilion hand in hand, and on through the sunshine they strolled, swinging hands gaily, reacting exuberantly from the week of deadening toil.

    Chapter 2 1913

  • Aidan called exuberantly as he jogged half a step ahead of Coglin.

    Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Michael Ledwidge 2003

  • Aidan called exuberantly as he jogged half a step ahead of Coglin.

    Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Michael Ledwidge 2003

  • Aidan called exuberantly as he jogged half a step ahead of Coglin.

    Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Michael Ledwidge 2003

  • Aidan called exuberantly as he jogged half a step ahead of Coglin.

    Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Michael Ledwidge 2003

  • They were labelled exuberantly, ‘Butifull Toledo steel works, mad only in San Juan’, and it was not for tourists to enquire how Toledo steel came to be made only in San Juan, or where were the foundries and workshops necessarily implied.

    Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

  • The chief changes come in Chapters Six and Seven of Trimalchio, and the long, late chapter, as Gatsby and Nick sit by the open French windows in Gatsby's house, the dawn after Myrtle's killing, when Gatsby breaks out "exuberantly": "I'll tell you everything.

    Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World' Flanagan, Thomas 2000

  • The former features the great baritone Alfred Drake at his exuberantly hammy best; the latter boasts an incredibly catchy, tune-filled score by Hollywood stalwarts Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

    Mining Broadway's Musical Riches Will Friedwald 2011

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  • "I used to command a battalion of German ants," said Tom exuberantly.

    March 20, 2007

  • *groan* - but fabulous.

    March 20, 2007