effusive
Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
Adjective
- Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
- effusive praise
- All week I’ve found myself doing everything I can to distance myself in the crew’s eyes from the bovine herd I’m part of, to somehow unimplicate myself: I eschew cameras and sunglasses and pastel Caribbeanwear; I make a...
- While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles...
Synonyms: gushy
Coordinate Terms: fulsome
- Pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing.
- wash'd with the effusive wave - 1726, Homer, “Book XXII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume V, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- Extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava.
Origin
Borrowed from Medieval Latin effūsīvus, 1660s.