effusive


highly enthusiastic (praise)

TRANSLATION

effusive = überschwänglich, schwärmerisch, übermäßig, exaltiert

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

“As he spoke, at least a dozen protester supporters stopped to thank Singh. He smiled politely and accepted the EFFUSIVE praise. Snowflakes glistened in his bushy salt-and-pepper beard as he said that he had joined the convoy for the sake of his children, who he had kept home from school because of mandatory mask and vaccine mandates.”

Tracey Lindeman in The Guardian — Inside the Ottawa truckers’ protest (11 February 2022)


“In early July Barack Obama was given an EFFUSIVE welcome in Ghana on his first trip to the continent as president.”

BBC News - In pictures: Africa in 2009

Did you
know?

effusive
adjective

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

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary


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.”


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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