Apathy is a lack of interest or unenthusiastic involvement in an activity; there is no effort to change or improve it at all.
When you have ardor for something, you have an intense feeling of love, excitement, and admiration for it.
If you are avid about something, you are excited about and eager to do it.
Someone in a buoyant mood is in good spirits.
If you describe someone, usually a young woman, as demure, you mean that she is quiet, shy, and always behaves modestly.
Someone who is dour is serious, stubborn, and unfriendly; they can also be gloomy.
Weather that is dreary tends to be depressing and gloomy; a situation or person that is dreary tends to be boring or uninteresting.
When you are ecstatic about something, you are overjoyed or extremely happy about it.
An effervescent individual is lively, very happy, and enthusiastic.
Someone who is effusive expresses happiness, pleasure, admiration, praise, etc., in an extremely enthusiastic way.
When you become elated about something, you become very happy, overjoyed, or extremely delighted.
If something enervates you, it makes you very tired and weak—almost to the point of collapse.
Ennui is the feeling of being bored, tired, and dissatisfied with life.
If something enthralls you, it makes you so interested and excited that you give it all your attention.
A state of euphoria is one of extreme happiness or overwhelming joy.
If you show exuberance, you display great excitement, energy, and enthusiasm.
Something humdrum is dull, boring, or tiresome.
When you are impassioned about a cause or idea, you are very passionate or highly emotionally charged about it.
If someone is impassive, they are not showing any emotion.
Something inanimate is dead, motionless, or not living; therefore, it does not display the same traits as an active and alive organism.
Someone who is inconsolable has been so devastated by a terrible event that no one can help them feel better about it.
If you are indifferent about something, you are uninterested or neutral about it, not caring either in a positive or negative way.
An indolent person is lazy.
Someone who is jaded is bored with or weary of the world because they have had too much experience with it.
If someone has a jaundiced view of something, they ignore the good parts and can only see the bad aspects of it.
When you are feeling jubilant, you are very happy or highly joyful about something.
If you do something in a lackadaisical way, you do it carelessly and without putting much effort into it—thereby showing that you are not really interested in what you’re doing.
A lamentable state of affairs is miserable and just plain awful.
A languid person is slow, relaxed, and shows little energy or interest in doing anything.
If you are lethargic, you are tired, lack energy, and are unwilling to exert effort.
When you are listless, you lack energy and interest and are unwilling to exert any effort.
If you describe something as moribund, you imply that it is no longer effective; it may also be coming to the end of its useful existence.
Someone who is nonchalant is very relaxed and appears not to be worried about anything.
Someone who is phlegmatic stays calm and unemotional even in dangerous or exciting situations.
A solemn person is serious and shows no joy.
A stoic person does not show their emotions and does not complain when bad things happen to them.
If you are stolid, you have or show little emotion about anything at all.
If you are suffering from tedium, you are bored.
If your body is affected by torpor, you are severely lacking in energy; therefore, you are idle—and can even be numb.
A truculent person is bad-tempered, easily annoyed, and prone to arguing excessively.
If someone is described as vivacious, they are lively and have a happy, lighthearted manner.
Someone who is zealous spends a lot of time, energy, and effort to support something— notably that of a political or religious nature—because they believe in it very strongly.
Adj.
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Context
The enthusiastic and ebullient cheerleader stirred the energy of the crowd before the football game. Cassie’s acrobatic feats and high-spirited, ebullient cheers inspired people to leap to their feet and clap loudly. Even though they were happy to be there, the other cheerleaders could not match the uplifting ebullience of Cassie’s excited voice and expression. There was a reason that the ebullient, bubbly Cassie had won the “spirit award” two years running.
Quiz:Try again!
What is an example of someone who is ebullient?
A young girl who is overjoyed to be visiting Paris for the first time.
An experienced actor who has just been turned down for a movie role.
A mother who is furious that her son failed his math class.
Stock Market Bulls Impatient When there's a bull market, investors are ebullient while buying stocks, excitedly hoping for huge gains.
Examples
Lovingly made while walking around downtown Providence, R.I., the song ["If You Can See" by Arc Iris] is ebullient and optimistic, an "up with people" anthem we all could use in these divisive times, regardless of the side you're on.
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NPR
It was past lunchtime and Nikki and Gomez, ebullient and eager, bounded out, more than ready for their daily treat. Lindsay Rojas, their Clorox-equipped dog walker, awaited, greeting them like old friends.
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Los Angeles Times
A prime example was an ebullient group of teenage girls, a whirl of blue jeans and saris amid hundreds of teachers and students gathered for a conference recently in Boston.
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The Christian Science Monitor
As the night wore on, the mood became positively ebullient, as presenters Seth Meyers, Richard Belzer and Triumph the Insult Dog did a series of side-splitting monologues about the strike.
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Los Angeles Times
When one is ebullient, one is in a “state of thoroughly bubbling, or bubbling over” with enthusiasm.
Word Theater
YouTube: Funnyplox This baby responds to what the dog is doing with ebullience!
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