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Definition: Effusive |
EffusiveAdjective1. Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones". 2. Extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "effusive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | See:extrusive. (references) |
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Synonyms: EffusiveSynonyms: burbling (adj), burbly (adj), emotional (adj), gushing (adj), gushing(a) (adj), gushy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Effusive |
| English words defined with "effusive": effusively, emotional ♦ gushing, gushy ♦ Intrusive rocks ♦ Scaturient. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Mexico | Mexican social etiquette makes it difficult to say no. In conversation, Mexicans emphasize tactful and indirect phrasing, and may be more effusive than Americans with praise and emotional expressions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Effusive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Effusive" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "effusive": Effusive rocks. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "effusive": over-effusive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
effusive | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "effusive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shfrenuar (orgiastic, overpowering, rabid, rampant, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, unrestrained), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, fiery, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, immoderate, incontinent, intemperate, jazz, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, unrestrained, wanton, wild). (various references) | |
Arabic | منفتح القلب, إنبجاسي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вулканичен (eruptive, igneous, plutonian, plutonic, pyrogenous, volcanic, vulcanic), ефузивен, прочувствен (affective, feeling, heartfelt, home-felt, intense, pathetic), излиятелен (gushing, gushy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 过分 (overblown). (various references) | |
Czech | exaltovaný (exalted, gushing), překypující, hojný (abundant, ample, copious, full, generous, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, superfluous). (various references) | |
Danish | effusive bjergarter (effusive rocks, extrusive rocks), vulkanitter (effusive rocks, extrusive rocks, volcanites), dagbjergarter (effusive rocks, extrusive rocks). (various references) | |
Dutch | effusiegesteenten (effusive rocks, extrusive rocks, volcanites), uitvloeiingsgesteenten (effusive rocks, extrusive rocks, volcanites). (various references) | |
Farsi | فوران کننده , پرحرارت وعلاقه . (various references) | |
Finnish | extrusiivinen kivilaji (effusive rocks, extrusive rocks), effusiivinen kivilaji (effusive rocks, extrusive rocks). (various references) | |
French | expansif, démonstratif. (various references) | |
German | überschwenglich (ebullient, exalted, exuberant, glowingly, gushing, gushy, immensely rich, lavish, lavishly, profuse, profusely, rolling in money, undue), übermäßig (disproportionate, effusively, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exuberant, exuberantly, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, intense, over, overly, profuse, to excess, undue, unduly, unreasonably, violent). (various references) | |
Greek | διαχυτικόσ (communicative, demonstrative, effusion, gushy, pervasive), διαχυτικός (exuberant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vulkanikus (volcanic), túláradó (ebullient, exuberant, flush, lavish, luxuriant, overflowing, profuse, redundant, rhapsodic), szenvelgő (gushy, mawkish, mincing), nyíltszívű (demonstrative, simple-hearted), kitódulásos, kitörő (exuberant, flaming), kifolyásos, kiömléses, kiáradó (ebullient, overflowing), effúziós, dagályos (bombast, bombastic, flatulent, grandiloquent, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, luscious, magniloquent, mouth-filling, pompous, puffed-up, ranting, redundant, stilted), ömlengő (expansive, gusher, gushy, mawkish, sloppy), áradozó (exuberant, gushy, sloppy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ramah-tamah (affable, amile, conversable, convivial), mencurahkan isi hati. (various references) | |
Italian | esuberante (excessive, exorbitant, exuberant, over, rampant, redundant), espansivo (demonstrative, dilatable, distensible, expansive, malleable, outgoing, warm-hearted). (various references) | |
Manx | deayrtagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | overstrømmende (exuberant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | effusiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | efusivo. (various references) | |
Romanian | exuberant (copious, ebullient, exuberant, gushing, rampant, rumbustious, wanton), expansiv (expansive, exuberant, fiery, gushy, unreserved). (various references) | |
Russian | экспансивный (expansive, robustious, screamy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ponesen, plahovit (fiery, heady, hotspur, impetuous, tumultuary, ugly). (various references) | |
Spanish | efusivo (gushing, hearty, warm), de efusión. (various references) | |
Swedish | översvallande (ebullient, exuberance, exuberant, gushing, overwhelming, profuse). (various references) | |
Turkish | taşkın (boisterous, disorderly, ebullient, excessive, expansive, exuberant, flood, gushing, intemperate, overflowing, rambunctious, rumbustious, volcanic), dökülen (deciduous, pouring out, tributary, weeping), coşkulu (cock-a-hoop, declamatory, dithyrambic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, glowing, gut, in a glow, rapturous, stirring, sweeping, transported with joy, vehement), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), akan (flowing, running, runny). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що витіка", вивержений, нестримний (abandoned, elemental, precipitous, runaway, side-splitting, splitting), експансивний (demonstrative, expansive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "effusive": effusively, effusiveness, effusivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Effusive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: effusiv. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "effusive" (pronounced e"fyuwsiv) |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-i-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: effuse. | |
-3 letters: fiefs, fifes, fives, fusee, sieve. | |
-4 letters: effs, eves, fees, feus, fief, fife, five, fuse, seif, vees, vies, vise. | |
-5 letters: eff, efs, eve, fee, feu, fie, iff, ifs, see, sei, sue, use, vee, vie, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-f-i-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: effusively. | |
+4 letters: effusiveness. | |
+5 letters: diffusiveness. | |
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