Meanings
comparative more effusively · superlative most effusively
- In an effusive manner.
1 more example
[…] 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
Origin
Translations
Portuguese efusivamente
- efusivamentein an effusive manner
Spanish efusivamente
- efusivamentein an effusive manner
Cite this entry
effusively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/effusively
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