adjective
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lively, exuberant, or self-confident
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having the capability or quality of bouncing
a bouncy ball
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responsive to bouncing; springy
a bouncy bed
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This is easily one of the most fun, captivating tracks of the summer — it’s funky, bouncy, buzzy and everything in between.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
He’ll probably put an inflatable bouncy castle in the Capitol building, and I’m actually perfectly fine with that.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Before it had just been one big, bouncy blue and orange Macy’s balloon, streetwise New York City behaving like some bucolic basketball Mayberry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
It’s been a bouncy few weeks for the stock.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Curls spiral around my face, bouncy and full.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
On bouncier pitches during December's tour of South Africa, Filer regularly topped 75mph and had the opposing batters hopping around the crease, being knocked over by bouncers, and stumps uprooted from the ground.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
The model showed that runners should run faster on softer, bouncier tracks that supported a runner's natural gait.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
At the ultracold temperatures in the outer solar system, icy particles are also bouncier and are less likely to stick together when they collide.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Ruth's hair is bouncier and darker, her eyeglasses even more oversized.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2022
The bubble champs are done, in the first round, losers to the healthier and bouncier Phoenix Suns.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2021
Balls are about the size of a mature orange and the bounciest of the bunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Toronto Raptors are going to the Eastern Conference Finals thanks to the bounciest buzzer-beater you will ever see under normal gravitational conditions.
From Slate ● May 12, 2019
Surprisingly, though, several of the bounciest poems are actually mini-tragedies.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
It is probably the quickest and bounciest pitch in world cricket, so the conditions will be alien to most of our players, and yet somehow England must produce a dramatically improved overall performance.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2013
Old Trafford, where the second Test will start on Friday, has the quickest, bounciest square in the country, and Finn is looking forward to the experience.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2010
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