bouncy
/ˈbaʊnsi
/adjective (bouncier, bounciest)
1Bouncing or causing things to bounce: bouncy floorboards a bouncy ball...
- My favourite balancing exercise is to throw a bouncy ball off a wall with your good hand, catch it with your weaker hand, then throw it with your weaker hand and catch it with your good hand.
- It began when a band struck up the opening hymn and a huge screen unfurled with a little bouncy ball popping across the words so everyone could sing along.
- Then we did some things on a big bouncy ball that looked like it had wandered in from the set of the 1970s children's series Playaway.
Synonyms
springy, flexible, resilient;
elastic, stretchy, stretchable, spongy, rubbery
rare tensible
bumpy, jolting, jolty, lurching, jerky, jumpy, jarring, bone-shaking, bone-breaking, turbulent, rough, uncomfortable
1.1(Of a person) confident and lively: she was still the girl he remembered, bouncy and full of life...
- She's as bouncy and lively as anyone this side of Reese Witherspoon.
- It's been fun having her around, as she is a very nice bouncy person.
- Far from being an aloof maestro that one associates with top performers, he was a delightfully bouncy man with a tremendous sense of humour.
Synonyms
lively, energetic, perky, frisky, jaunty, zestful, dynamic, vital, vigorous, vibrant, animated, spirited, buoyant, bubbly, bubbling, sparkling, effervescent, vivacious, sunny, breezy, bright and breezy, enthusiastic, upbeat
informal peppy, zingy, zippy, zesty, chirpy, full of beans
North American informal peart
1.2(Of music) having a pleasingly jaunty rhythm: bouncy 1960s tunes...
- Graceful moray eels, deadly great white sharks, playful porpoises, and tiny crabs show up along the way, all to the enchanting tune of Serra's bouncy music score.
- In 1923, a number of foreign and Chinese owned radio stations in the city began to broadcast jazz for their listeners and the bouncy music was being played in the foreign clubs and cafes.
- Dialogue, effects and David Newman's bouncy music score were all clear of any distortion or hiss.
Derivatives
bouncily
- Their production is bouncily performed, and contains several strong moments.
- Martins's Burleske, set to Richard Strauss's bouncily Romantic early work Burleske in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra, almost seemed like a Valentine Day's gift to his wife, one of the lead dancers.
- Price's staging brings it all bouncily together.
bounciness
- Instead, she was all jolliness and bounciness and big smiles.
- I'd flip through it, letting my eyes enjoy the bounciness and chic of it.
- To be stamped ‘official’ in accordance with the International Tennis Federation, a ball must meet rigid specifications for deformation and bounciness.