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Effervescent   /ˌɛfərvˈɛsənt/   Listen
Effervescent

adjective
1.
Used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide.  Synonym: sparkling.  "Sparkling water"
2.
(of a liquid) giving off bubbles.
3.
Marked by high spirits or excitement.  Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly.  "Scintillating personality" , "A row of sparkly cheerleaders"






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"Effervescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... prehistoric stone idols, come down to peddle their handiwork in the streets. The people throng the narrow ways, a chattering, happy, careless stream of buoyant humanity. Preposterous children rigged out with the shortest of ballet skirts and gilt wings, howl, underfoot, among the effervescent crowds. Especially is the arrival of the presidential party, at the opening of the season, attended with pomp, show and patriotic demonstrations of enthusiasm ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

... height, somewhat stout, very neat and orderly, and he twirled a waxed moustache, turning grey. He had heavy and bilious eyes, and a certain pompousness of manner distinguished him. Also an effervescent geniality which found expression in shaking hands with anybody who happened to be handy, in mechanically agreeing with all views that were put before him and immediately afterwards contradicting them; ...
— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace

... cupboards, and then began turning round and round as fast as he could, in the middle of the room, thinking there was somebody behind him, when the same voice struck again on his ear. It was singing now, very merrily, "Lala-lira-la"—no words, only a soft, running, effervescent melody, something like that of a kettle on the boil. Gluck looked out of the window; no, it was certainly in the house. Upstairs and downstairs; no, it was certainly in that very room, coming in quicker time and clearer notes every moment: "Lala-lira-la." ...
— The King of the Golden River - A Short Fairy Tale • John Ruskin.

... girls and Mephistos, Indians and monkeys; of wild and sudden flashes of music, of glittering pageants and comic ones, of befeathered and belled horses. A madding dream of color and melody and fantasy gone wild in an effervescent bubble of beauty that shifts and changes and passes kaleidoscope-like before the ...
— Violets and Other Tales • Alice Ruth Moore

... The effervescent spirits which had this morning been Sylvia's seemed now to have passed into her hostess, and the glad eagerness with which the younger girl followed the other's mood was noted and appreciated by Dunham, who, when he could catch ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... from the approaching contest. The talkers were not men of recognized standing, the manufacturers and landowners whose influence was of most importance—for these personages were seldom seen at the Institute; but certain "small" people, fidgety, or effervescent, or enthusiastic, eager to hear their own voices raised in declamation, and to get spoken of in the town as representatives of public opinion. Such a group had gathered early one afternoon in this month of October. ...
— Denzil Quarrier • George Gissing

... pre-eminence in wines, although it lies at the farthest confines of the vine-bearing zone, beyond which the tree of Bacchus refuses to live. Do you realise that in all the wide belt of earth where vineyards flourish, only the dry hills of Champagne ripen the delicious effervescent wine that refigures in modern civilisation—at least for those who are fond of wine—the nectar of the gods? And this, while effervescent wines are made in innumerable parts of the world and many are so good that ...
— Characters and events of Roman History • Guglielmo Ferrero



Words linked to "Effervescent" :   scintillating, foamy, aerated, charged, noneffervescent, spumy, lively, effervescence, fizzing, fizzy, bubbly, effervesce, effervescing, foaming, carbonated, still



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