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Excessive outpourings
- We've used effusive in English to describe excessive outpourings since the 17th century. In the 1800s, geologists adopted the specific sense related to flowing lava—or to hardened rock formed from flowing lava.
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1. : marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm. effusive praise. 2. archaic : pouring freely. 3. : characterized or formed by a nonexplosive outpouring of lava. effusive rocks. effusively adverb.
EFFUSIVE definition: 1. expressing welcome, approval, or pleasure in a way that shows very strong feeling: 2…. Learn more.
If you describe someone as effusive, you mean that they express pleasure, gratitude, or approval in a very enthusiastic way. He was effusive in his praise for the general. She was very gushing and very effusive.
EFFUSIVE meaning: 1. expressing welcome, approval, or pleasure in a way that shows very strong feeling: 2…. Learn more.
Definition of effusive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Effusive definition: unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve. See examples of EFFUSIVE used in a sentence.
The word effusive has a surprisingly similar definition in geology; it describes a particular kind of volcanic eruption, one in which lava bubbles up out of the volcano and flows around it. Definitions of effusive. adjective. uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm. synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing. lively.
