effusive

English

WOTD – 17 October 2011

From the stem of Latin effundēre +‎ -ive, from ex- (“out of”) +‎ fundō (“pour”), 1660s.[1]

effusive (comparative more effusive, superlative most effusive)

Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
  All week I’ve found myself doing everything I can to distance myself in the crew’s eyes from the bovine herd I’m part of, to somehow unimplicate myself: I eschew cameras and sunglasses and pastel Caribbeanwear; I make a big deal of carrying my own cafeteria tray and am effusive in my thanks for the slightest service.
(archaic) Pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing.
- Alexander Pope
  washed with the effusive wave
(geology, of igneous rock) Extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava.

extravagant or excessive

Portuguese: efusivo (pt)
Russian: экспанси́вный (ru) (ekspansívnyj), бу́рный (ru) (búrnyj), необу́зданный (ru) (neobúzdannyj), несде́ржанный (ru) (nesdéržannyj), неуме́ренный (ru) (neumérennyj), я́рко вы́раженный (ru) (járko výražennyj)
Spanish: efusivo
Swedish: översvallande (sv)
Turkish: coşkulu (tr), coşkun (tr), taşkın (tr)

pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing

Maori: pātere
Russian: переполня́ющий (ru) (perepolnjájuščij), лью́щийся че́рез край (lʹjúščijsja čérez kraj)

extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava

Russian: эффузивный (ru) (effuzivnyj), вулканический (ru) (vulkaničeskij), излившийся из вулкана (izlivšijsja iz vulkana)
Spanish: extrusivo

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