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
Celeste took our breath away with a grungier, angrier sound than the floaty jazz-soul of her debut.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
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
Splashes of bright blues, greens and pinks were added to the largely black ensembles, with silhouettes skin-tight or floaty.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2023
Her body was warm and her head was as fat and floaty as a cloud.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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
Tomlinson destigmatizes mental illness as just another human trait, like not being able to swim, and equates taking medication to wearing arm floaties in the pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
But the Briggses left the country for four years, and when they came back neither girl wore floaties anymore.
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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