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

effusive \effu"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. -- effu"sively, adv. -- effu"siveness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
reserved effusive rocks intrusive plutonic effu"sively effu"siveness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

effusive
     adj 1: uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in
            burbly panting tones" syn: burbling, burbly, gushing
     2: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive
        demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large
        gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
        syn: emotional, gushinga, gushy
see also:
burbling burbly gushing emotional gushinga gushy 

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

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

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