[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

effervescent \ef`ferves"cent\, a. l. effervescences, p. pr. of
   effervescere: cf. f. effervescent.
   gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of
   gas
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bubbling \bubbling\ adj.
   1. giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid. narrower terms:
      foaming, frothing; effervescent; boiling
      wordnet 1.5

   2. stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; -- of
      people.

   syn: effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly,
        vivacious.
        wordnet 1.5
see also:
foaming, frothing effervescent boiling 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

effervescent
     adj 1: used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially
            with carbon dioxide; "sparkling wines"; "sparkling
            water" syn: sparkling ant: still
     2: of a liquid giving off bubbles ant: noneffervescent
     3: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile
        effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality";
        "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
        syn: bubbling, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly
see also:
sparkling still noneffervescent bubbling scintillating sparkly 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

120 moby thesaurus words for "effervescent":
   active, activist, activistic, agog, airy, alive, animated, aquiver,
   aroused, atingle, atwitter, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering,
   blistery, boiling, bouncing, bouncy, brash, breezy, brisk,
   bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burbling, burbly, bursting, carbonated,
   carried away, chiffon, chipper, ebullient, energetic, enthusiastic,
   excited, exhilarated, expansive, exuberant, fired, fizzing,
   fizzling, fizzy, foaming, foamy, frisky, frothing, frothy,
   full of go, full of life, full of pep, gassy, gay, gleeful, high,
   high-spirited, hilarious, hissing, hopped up, hushing, impassioned,
   inflamed, irrepressible, jolly, keyed up, lathered up, live,
   lively, manic, mercurial, militant, mirthful, moved, peppy, perky,
   pert, puffed, quicksilver, ready to burst, resilient, roused,
   sibilant, sissing, sizzling, smacking, snappy, sniffing, sniffling,
   snoring, snuffling, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling,
   spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, steamed up, stimulated,
   stirred, stirred up, thrilled, tingling, tingly, turned-on,
   vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, volatile,
   wheezing, wheezy, whipped, whipped up, worked up, wrought up,
   yeasty, zingy

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