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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ebullient \E*bul"lient\, adjective [L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st {Boil}.] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. ''Ebullient with subtlety.'' --De Quincey.
The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. --Carlyle.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ebullient
adjective: joyously unrestrained [syn: {exuberant}, {high-spirited}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "ebullient": active, activist, activistic, agog, alive, animated, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle, atwitter, baking, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, boiling, bouncing, bouncy, brash, breezy, brisk, broiling, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, burning, burning hot, bursting, canicular, carbonated, carried away, chiffon, chipper, effervescent, energetic, excited, exhilarated, feverish, fired, fizzy, flushed, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, grilling, heated, high, high-spirited, hopped up, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, impassioned, inflamed, keyed up, lathered up, like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively, manic, mercurial, militant, moved, overheated, overwarm, parching, peppy, perky, pert, piping hot, puffed, quicksilver, ready to burst, red-hot, roasting, roused, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smacking, smoking hot, snappy, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling, spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, thrilled, tingling, tingly, toasting, torrid, turned-on, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, whipped, whipped up, white-hot, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zingy
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