buoyant
tending to float in a fluid.
capable of keeping a body afloat, as a liquid.
not easily depressed; cheerful.
cheering or invigorating.
Origin of buoyant
1Other words for buoyant
Other words from buoyant
- buoy·ant·ly, adverb
- non·buoy·ant, adjective
- non·buoy·ant·ly, adverb
- un·buoy·ant, adjective
- un·buoy·ant·ly, adverb
Words Nearby buoyant
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How to use buoyant in a sentence
It was in this buoyant baby boom atmosphere that my parents grew up.
Standout tracks include the Bad-era sounding Blue Gangsta and the irrepressibly buoyant Paul Anka-written Love Never Felt So Good.
Despite this skepticism, Hatch was feeling buoyant in an interview with The Daily Beast.
Is Iowa’s Republican Goliath Governor the Next Chris Christie? | Ben Jacobs | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSeeger showed Springsteen that political music could be buoyant, even as it dealt with the weightiest issues.
Springsteen, Seeger, and the Joy of Political Music | Howard Wolfson | February 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe stock market has been buoyant, and interest rates have been rising in part because of expectations of higher economic growth.
Nature, ever buoyant and imperative, does her best to remedy the ills created by "Man's inhumanity to Man."
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyIt was to me a new birth of faculties that resembled a new sense of being, a buoyant and elastic lightness of feelings and frame.
She was a most lovely girl, with a wild-rose complexion and starlike eyes, and full of life and buoyant hope.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe water of dead seas, because of the additional weight of the substances which it holds, is extraordinarily buoyant.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerShe was a brunette—great black flashing eyes, full red lips, raven-black hair, skin suffused with the glow of buoyant health.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph Hocking
British Dictionary definitions for buoyant
/ (ˈbɔɪənt) /
able to float in or rise to the surface of a liquid
(of a liquid or gas) able to keep a body afloat or cause it to rise
cheerful or resilient
Origin of buoyant
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