overexuberant

adjective

over·​ex·​u·​ber·​ant ˌō-vər-ig-ˈzü-b(ə-)rənt 

: exuberant to an excessive degree

overexuberant fans

… the 24-year-old shortstop with the engaging smile and the overexuberant celebrations on the field …

—Ben Shpigel

overexuberantly adverb

… a journey there that featured sharing a plane with soldiers overexuberantly celebrating their return from Iraq.

—Vahe Gregorian

Examples of overexuberant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But in a context mostly stripped of overt story, the movements feel more extreme, and even overexuberant, as if let loose from jail: not just high kicks but kicks so high the shins bang the face. —Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023

Now, as the company pursues a SPAC, the question is, is Ginkgo’s eye-popping valuation emblematic of an overexuberant SPAC market, or the result of a company finding the right tool to communicate and capitalize on a truly transformative business idea? —Adam Bluestein, Fortune, 8 July 2021

Woodward cautions overexuberant members of the NFT community from being too jubilant. —Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 21 Jan. 2022

By that time scientists were zeroing in on overexuberant inflammation as a key feature of severe COVID. —Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1821, in the meaning defined above