bouncing

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bouncing

  • /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/

Rhymes with -aʊnsɪŋ

adjective

  1. Healthy; vigorous. a bouncing baby girl
  2. informal, obsolete Excessively big; whopping. a bouncing reckoning

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bounce

noun bouncings

  1. The act of something that bounces. […] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: zippy, peppy, lively, spirited, healthy, jolting, jouncing, bouncy, moving, jumping, rebounding, springing, bounding, leaping, hopping, ricocheting

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adj healthy; vigorous

中文健壮的
Românăviguros, robust, plin de viață

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@misc{bouncing_2026,
  title = {bouncing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bouncing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}