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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EFFU'SIVE, a. Pouring out; that pours forth largely.
Th' effusive south.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones" [syn: burbling, burbly, effusive, gushing]
2: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn: effusive, gushing, gushy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1662 1. marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm <effusive praise> 2. archaic pouring freely 3. characterized or formed by a nonexplosive outpouring of lava <effusive rocks> • effusively adverb • effusiveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 gushing, demonstrative, exuberant (effusive praise). 2 Geol. (of igneous rock) poured out when molten and later solidified, volcanic. Derivatives: effusively adv. effusiveness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Effusive Ef*fu"sive, a. Pouring out; pouring forth freely. ``Washed with the effusive wave.'' --Pope. Effusive rocks (Geol.), volcanic rocks, in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks. -- Ef*fu"sive*ly, adv. -- Ef*fu"sive*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as effusive, you mean that they express pleasure, gratitude, or approval in a very enthusiastic way. He was effusive in his praise for the general... ADJ • effusively She greeted them effusively. ADV

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Lavish, generous, largely or freely outpouring, effuse. 2. Poured abroad, spread widely, diffused.

Moby Thesaurus

abundant, accessible, all jaw, approachable, candid, chatty, cloying, communicative, conversable, conversational, copious, demonstrative, diffuse, diffusive, ebullient, effluent, effused, emotional, expansive, extravagant, extravasated, extroverted, exuberant, fecund, flip, fluent, formless, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, fulsome, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushing, gushy, lavish, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, open, outbound, outflowing, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken, outward-bound, overenthusiastic, overflowing, overtalkative, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, rhapsodic, self-revealing, self-revelatory, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, smooth, sociable, superabundant, talkative, talky, tautologous, teeming, unchecked, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, verbose, voluble, windy