effusive

effusive
    adj 1: uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in
           burbly panting tones" [syn: {burbling}, {burbly},
           {effusive}, {gushing}]
    2: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive
       demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing
       female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn:
       {effusive}, {gushing(a)}, {gushy}]
    

effusive \ef*fu"sive\, a.
   1. Pouring out; pouring forth freely. [archaic] "Washed with
      the effusive wave." --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Geol.) formed by an outpouring of molten lava, or
      pertaining to rocks so formed.
      [PJC]

   3. overly demonstrative; expressing emotion in an
      unrestrained manner; exhibiting unrestrained enthusiasm;
      -- of people and human actions; as, effusive thanks; an
      effusive letter of recommendation. Contrasted with
      {reserved}. [WordNet sense 1+2]

   Syn: gushing, gushy, burbling, burbly. [PJC]

   {Effusive rocks} (Geol.), volcanic rocks formed by a
      nonexplosive outpouring of lava in molten or plastic form;
      in distinction from so-called {intrusive}, or {plutonic},
      rocks. -- {Ef*fu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ef*fu"sive*ness}, n.
      [1913 Webster]
    

97 Moby Thesaurus words for "effusive":
      abundant, accessible, all jaw, approachable, candid, chatty,
      cloying, communicative, conversable, conversational, copious,
      demonstrative, diffuse, diffusive, ebullient, effluent, effused,
      emotional, expansive, extravagant, extravasated, extroverted,
      exuberant, fecund, flip, fluent, formless, frank, free,
      free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, fulsome, gabby,
      garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushing, gushy,
      lavish, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious,
      newsy, open, outbound, outflowing, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken,
      outward-bound, overenthusiastic, overflowing, overtalkative,
      pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific,
      prolix, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, rhapsodic,
      self-revealing, self-revelatory, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy,
      slushy, smarmy, smooth, sociable, superabundant, talkative, talky,
      tautologous, teeming, unchecked, unconstrained, unhampered,
      unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent,
      unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, verbose, voluble,
      windy