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Etymology
Etymology tree English effusive Middle English -ly English -ly English effusively From effusive + -ly.
Meanings
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In an effusive manner.
[…] he is, as he affirms, a “people person”—his impulses are unfailingly awkward, his attempts at humor are lumpishly uncool, he’s accident-prone and fretful, but he’s also effusively sympathetic, optimistic, encouraging, and insistently pursuing sentimentally warm companionships based on little but a bottomless fund of sheer enthusiasm.
2016 October 21, Richard Brody, “‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ and the marketing of cinematic charisma”, in The New Yorker:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more effusively | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most effusively | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
pt efusivamente (in an effusive manner) · es efusivamente (in an effusive manner)