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effusive
adjective

- expressing welcome, approval or pleasure in a way that shows very strong feeling

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

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AN EFFUSIVE ADMIRER

The American artist John Singer Sargent once found himself seated next to an EFFUSIVE female admirer at a dinner party.

“Oh, Mr. Sargent”, the young woman gushed, “I saw your latest painting and kissed it because it was so much like you.”

“And did it kiss you in return?” Sargent asked.

“Well, of course not.”

“Then”, he replied with a sly smile, “it was not like me.”

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SYNONYMS
- gushing, profuse, exuberant, outpouring, overflowing, unconstrained
- excessive in obsequious praise or flattery

actorly, adulatory, affected, all over someone, blubbery, carried away, cloying, dewy-eyed, ebullient, ecstatic, EFFUSIVE, fulsome, gushing, gushy, laid on with a trowel, lovey-dovey, moonstruck, mushy, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, OTT (Over The Top), outpouring, over-effusive, over-enthusiastic, overacted, overdone, overemotional, overweening, soapy, unctuous

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“Jill received EFFUSIVE praise for her presentation. It was well deserved!”

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