buoyant
buoyant is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. The water under me was buoyant. Dryden.
- 2.Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. -- Buoy"ant*ly, adv.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- airy
- astatic
- back
- baleen
- balloon
- barm
- bounce
- bubble
- buoy
- buoyancy
- caoutchouc
- cobweb
- convection
- cork
- distend
- down
- draft
- ductile
- dust
- elastic
- elasticity
- ether
- ethereal
- extend
- feather
- ferment
- flex
- flexibility
- flexible
- float
- floating
- flue
- gossamer
- gossamery
- gum
- helium
- hot
- hydrogen
- imponderability
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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