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Ebullient vs Exultant - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between ebullient and exultant

is that ebullient is enthusiastic; high-spirited while exultant is very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.

ebullient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • enthusiastic; high-spirited.
  • * Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons. - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 233)
  • (of a liquid) boiling or agitated as if boiling

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    exultant

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.

    • Synonyms

    * merry * happy * gay * ecstatic * content * joyful * cheerful * pleased * jovial * jubilant * triumphant

    Antonyms

    * downcast * miserable * unhappy