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adjective

effusive adj.

Pouring out; pouring forth freely. (archaic) "Washed with the effusive wave."

(Geol.) Formed by an outpouring of molten lava, or pertaining to rocks so formed.

Overly demonstrative; expressing emotion in an unrestrained manner; exhibiting unrestrained enthusiasm; of people and human actions; as, effusive thanks; an effusive letter of recommendation. Contrasted with reserved.

Synonyms: gushing, gushy, burbling, burbly.

Effusive rocks (Geol.), volcanic rocks formed by a nonexplosive outpouring of lava in molten or plastic form; in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Effusive" Quotes from Famous Books

... I saw that his effusive friendliness confirmed Tom Langdon's fear that I had escaped from his brother's toils. He stared sullenly at the carpet until he caught me looking at him with twinkling eyes. He made a valiant effort to return my smile and succeeded in twisting his face into a knot that seemed to hurt him as ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... more closely packed with figurative meaning than perhaps any of Swinburne's later verse. It is less fluid, less 'exuberant and effusive' (to accept two epithets of his own in reference to the verse of Atalanta in Calydon). He is ready to be harsh when harshness is required, abrupt for some sharp effect; he holds out against the enervating allurements of alliteration; ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... forward and shook hands. His manner was not exactly effusive. The truth was that their acquaintanceship in Africa had been of the slightest, dating from some trivial services which Durnovo had been able and very eager ...

— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman

... society. He lingered in her vicinity on all possible occasions, and seemed to derive comfort from her mere presence. And Bess not only tolerated but encouraged him. Not that her manner was in the least degree effusive: she rather extended a rough protection to her admirer, and displayed a tendency to fight his battles and employ her sharper wit as a ...

— "Seth" • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... there seemed now and then to rise to the surface an underflow of repressed malignity, not pronounced enough to be certain about, yet sufficiently distinct to provoke in me a vague sensation of uneasiness and distrust. To put the matter concisely, although Lemaitre was by no means effusive in his expressions of good- will toward me, and although there was a certain perfunctory quality in such attentions as he showed me, there was with it all a curious subtle something, so intangible that I found it ...

— A Pirate of the Caribbees • Harry Collingwood

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