Effervescent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Effervescent \Ef`fer*ves"cent\, a. [L. effervescences, p. pr. of
     effervescere: cf. F. effervescent.]
     Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of
     gas
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bubbling \bubbling\ adj.
     1. giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid. [Narrower terms:
        {foaming, frothing}; {effervescent}; {boiling}]
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; -- of
        people.
  
     Syn: effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly,
          vivacious.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  effervescent
       adj 1: used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially
              with carbon dioxide; "sparkling wines"; "sparkling
              water" [syn: {sparkling}] [ant: {still}]
       2: (of a liquid) giving off bubbles [ant: {noneffervescent}]
       3: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile
          effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality";
          "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
          [syn: {bubbling}, {scintillating}, {sparkling}, {sparkly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "effervescent":
     active, activist, activistic, agog, airy, alive, animated, aquiver,
     aroused, atingle, atwitter, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering,
     blistery, boiling, bouncing, bouncy, brash, breezy, brisk,
     bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burbling, burbly, bursting, carbonated,
     carried away, chiffon, chipper, ebullient, energetic, enthusiastic,
     excited, exhilarated, expansive, exuberant, fired, fizzing,
     fizzling, fizzy, foaming, foamy, frisky, frothing, frothy,
     full of go, full of life, full of pep, gassy, gay, gleeful, high,
     high-spirited, hilarious, hissing, hopped up, hushing, impassioned,
     inflamed, irrepressible, jolly, keyed up, lathered up, live,
     lively, manic, mercurial, militant, mirthful, moved, peppy, perky,
     pert, puffed, quicksilver, ready to burst, resilient, roused,
     sibilant, sissing, sizzling, smacking, snappy, sniffing, sniffling,
     snoring, snuffling, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling,
     spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, steamed up, stimulated,
     stirred, stirred up, thrilled, tingling, tingly, turned-on,
     vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, volatile,
     wheezing, wheezy, whipped, whipped up, worked up, wrought up,
     yeasty, zingy