effervescent.

1. Producing or releasing bubbles of gas through a liquid.

2. Showing a bright, animated, and infectious liveliness.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• an effervescent drink
• an effervescent tablet
• an effervescent solution

On the page

The effervescent tablet left a ring of bubbles against the glass.

An effervescent stream rose through the sample as dissolved gas escaped.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more effervescent; superlative most effervescent for liveliness; compare bubbling explicitly in the physical use. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.