exuberant
ig-ZOO-ber-untadjMeaning full of energy, excitement and joy
Memory hook ex-ZOO-ber-ant: a ZOO bursting with joy. The keeper rolls in a birthday cake, and the whole zoo bursts with joy: the monkey leaps, the parrot sings, the elephant sprays a happy fountain. The animals are exuberant.
The exuberant puppy raced around the yard, leaping at every leaf.
In context The concert hall was usually hushed, but tonight the crowd was exuberant, clapping along, dancing in the aisles and calling for one more song.
Similar lively, energetic, high-spirited, vivacious
Opposite subdued, listless, glum
From Latin exuberare, “to be abundantly fruitful,” from uber, “fertile.”