Exuberant vs Ample - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between exuberant and ample

is that exuberant is exuberant while ample is large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.

(en adjective)

(of people) Very high-spirited; extremely energetic and enthusiastic.

* 1882 , , "The Lady or the Tiger?":

He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.

* 1961 , , Catch-22 :

She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.

(of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant, profuse, superabundant.

* 1972 , Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22:

The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.

* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----

(er)

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.

* All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. --Spenser.

Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.

* full, spacious, extensive, wide, capacious, abundant, plentiful, plenteous, copious, bountiful; rich, liberal, munificent * See also

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