Meaning of EFFUSIVE
| Pronunciation: | | i'fyoosiv
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- [adj] extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
- [adj] uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones"
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| | Synonyms: | | burbling, burbly, demonstrative, emotional, gushing, gushing(a), gushy, lively |
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| | Definition: | | \Ef*fu"sive\, a.
Pouring out; pouring forth freely. ``Washed with the effusive
wave.'' --Pope.
{Effusive rocks} (Geol.), volcanic rocks, in distinction from
so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks. --
{Ef*fu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ef*fu"sive*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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