bouncing

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/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/

adj 2noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

many, over, tall, young

VERB + BOUNCING

blue-eyed, gurgling, heard, keep, kept, screaming, started

BOUNCING + NOUN

baby, ball, downstairs, egypt, girl, ladies, trampoline, walls

PREP.

around, down, from, in, off, on, up

ADV.

everywhere, happily

Definitions

adj

Healthy; vigorous.

a bouncing baby girl

By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.

Excessively big; whopping.

a bouncing reckoning

noun

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

Synonyms

noun — rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)

bounce

adjective — marked by lively action

bouncy
peppy
spirited
zippy

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

a bouncing baby girl

Wiktionary

By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.

Wiktionary

a bouncing reckoning

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

The kids were screaming and bouncing everywhere.

Tatoeba · #2819171

The children are bouncing on the trampoline.

Tatoeba · #3633721

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, bouncing is marked as informal, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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