ebullient
ih-BUL-yuntadjMeaning bubbling over with cheerful energy
Memory hook e-BUBBLE-ient: BUBBLING over. Like a pot bubbling over, Zoe can’t hold in her joy at her first A: she jumps, laughs and hugs the whole class. She is ebullient.
The ebullient host greeted every guest with a hug and a joke.
In context Usually quiet, Professor Edwin became ebullient whenever someone asked about dinosaurs, waving his arms and talking faster than anyone could take notes.
Similar exuberant, bubbly, effervescent, buoyant
Opposite subdued, gloomy, flat
From Latin ebullire, “to boil up”: e (out) + bullire (to bubble, to boil).