effervescent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ef=fer=ves=cent

CIDE DICTIONARY

effervescent, a. [L. effervescences, p. pr. of effervescere: cf. F. effervescent.].

 Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

effervescent

active, activist, activistic, agog, airy, alive, animated, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, boiling, bouncing, bouncy, brash, breezy, brisk, bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burbling, burbly, bursting, carbonated, carried away, chiffon, chipper, ebullient, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, expansive, exuberant, fired, fizzing, fizzling, fizzy, foaming, foamy, frisky, frothing, frothy, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gassy, gay, gleeful, high, high-spirited, hilarious, hissing, hopped up, hushing, impassioned, inflamed, irrepressible, jolly, keyed up, lathered up, live, lively, manic, mercurial, militant, mirthful, moved, peppy, perky, pert, puffed, quicksilver, ready to burst, resilient, roused, sibilant, sissing, sizzling, smacking, snappy, sniffing, sniffling, snoring, snuffling, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling, spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, thrilled, tingling, tingly, turned-on, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, volatile, wheezing, wheezy, whipped, whipped up, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zingy

ROGET THESAURUS

effervescent

Vaporization

N vaporization, volatilization, gasification, evaporation, vaporation, distillation, cupellation, cohobation, sublimination, exhalation, volatility, vaporizer, still, retort, fumigation, steaming, bay salt, chloride of sodium, mister, spray, bubble, effervescence, ', volatilized, reeking, volatile, evaporable, vaporizable, bubbly, effervescent, boiling, Specific Fluids.

Air

N air, common air, atmospheric air, atmosphere, aerosphere, open air, sky, welkin, blue sky, cloud, weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar, aerology, aerometry, aeroscopy, aeroscopy, aerography, meteorology, climatology, pneumatics, eudioscope, baroscope, aeroscope, eudiometer, barometer, aerometer, aneroid, baroscope, weather gauge, weather glass, weather cock, exposure to the air, exposure to the weather, ventilation, aerostation, aeronautics, aeronaut, containing air, flatulent, effervescent, windy, atmospheric, airy, aerial, aeriform, meteorological, weatherwise, in the open air, a la belle etoile, al fresco, sub jove dio.

Bubble

N bubble; cloud, bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift, cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser, scud, messenger, rack, nimbus, cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus, cirrostratus, cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke, thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology, effervescence, fermentation, bubbling, nebula, cloudliness, nebulosity, bubbling, frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, frothy, up, cloudy, thunderheaded, vaporous, nebulous, overcast, the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened lands.