adjective
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filmy and light
floaty material
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capable of floating; buoyant
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(of a vessel) riding high in the water; of shallow draught
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of floaty
First recorded in 1600–10; float + -y 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Head right and try on Bar jackets and floaty white dresses to your heart’s content.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
"I was forever living in floaty dresses because of the bloating and even bought maternity jeans just to be comfortable," she said.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Exaggeratedly floaty dresses were sometimes chicly tucked into giant sheeny thigh-high leather pirate boots adding unexpected styling contrasts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
The most difficult tasks she faces involve making sure the guests aren’t running too close to the pool and tracking down a Pokémon’s floaty.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
The bell-shaped sleeves hung loose around her arms, and the floaty hem stopped a few inches above her knees.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
A young Freddie Freeman slipped down a water slide, two orange inflatable floaties hoisting his arms — and body weight — above the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
He and business partner Bardy Bayram briefly tossed up working noodles and coconut milk into the drink somehow, but decided floaties and a creamy flavour would probably be a bridge too far.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
Maryland-based Warehouse Cinemas has sold out its Thursday night "Malibu Beach Party" screenings featuring pink cocktails served in flamingo floaties, said president and CEO Rich Daughtridge.
From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2023
Mobile phone video from the scene shows floaties and water being sucked to the bottom, at the center of the pool, as people sitting by the poolside shout in Hebrew.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2022
There were pictures of the two of them splashing around the Linden Hills kiddie pool in matching arm floaties.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
The flight might be longer, floatier and more manic than some might want from fiction, but it ended up, for me, feeling like art.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022
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