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Effusive vs Adulate - What's the difference?

effusive | adulate |

As an adjective effusive

is gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).

As a verb adulate is

to flatter effusively.

effusive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression)
  • (archaic) pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing
  • * Alexander Pope
    • washed with the effusive wave
  • (of igneous rock) extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava

    • Derived terms

    * effusively * effusiveness

    adulate

    English

    Verb

    (adulat)
  • To flatter effusively

    • Derived terms

    * adulation * adulator * adulatory ----