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Definition: Buoyant |
BuoyantAdjective1. Tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf". 2. Characterized by liveliness and light-heartedness; "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor"; "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little widow in her 70s". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "buoyant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Buoyant \Buoy"ant\, adjective. [From Buoy, transitive verb]. (references) |
Synonyms: BuoyantSynonyms: chirpy (adj), floaty (adj), perky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ascent | Adjective: rising; Verb: scandent, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant; excelsior. |
Cheerfulness | Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. |
Elasticity | Adjective: elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant; ductile, stretchable, extendable. |
Hope | Adjective: hoping; Verb: in hopes; Noun: hopeful, confident; secure; (certain); sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome; utopian. |
Levity | Adjective: light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating. Verb: portable. |
Prosperity | Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Buoyant |
| English words defined with "buoyant": buoyantly ♦ chirpily, cork jacket ♦ floating dock, flotation device ♦ Insubmergible ♦ life belt, life buoy, life jacket, life preserver, life ring, life vest, lifesaver, light, lightsome, lilting ♦ preserver ♦ safety belt, surfboard, swinging, swingy ♦ tripping ♦ Waftage, wakeboard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "buoyant": convergent plate boundary ♦ displacement-type float, drifting mine ♦ floating strainer, flotation gear ♦ glacier burst, glacier flood ♦ jökulhaup,glacier outburst flood ♦ Life-boat ♦ metacentric height. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Early hard hats were heavy in air, but buoyant underwater. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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Alexander Maclaren | Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. |
Catharine Esther Beecher | The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. |
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Health | These diets lead to the production of large buoyant VLDL particles, which are thought to be less atherogenic compared to dense VLDL particles. (references) | |
Business | Thus, in the meantime, the market for fuel additives will remain buoyant. (references) | |
Growth in imports is expected to continue, as the market for aircraft maintenance remains buoyant. (references) | ||
There is still room for U.S. companies to join Otis, Dover and General Electric and participate in Singapore's buoyant market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Switzerland | U.S. exports of fresh green asparagus continue to enjoy buoyant demand. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The paddy sector, which has been buoyant in the past three years, is likely to slow. (references) | |
India | Inflation has remained moderate, foreign exchange reserves strong, and exports buoyant. (references) | |
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| "Buoyant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Buoyant" is used about 360 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 360 | 14,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "buoyant": buoyant chistie. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "buoyant": ever-buoyant. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
buoyant force | 12 |
buoyant | 10 |
buoyant thomas | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "buoyant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pluskues (awash, float, floatable, floating, supernatant), notues (ball cock, floatable, floater, floaty, natatorial, natatory, supernatant, water borne), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), مبهج (cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, entrancing, gladsome, heavenly, joyful, joyous, winsome, yummy), مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), قادر على التعويم, قابل للطفو (floatable), طاف (afloat, circuit, cruise, floating, promenade, range, roam, roll, rove, scour, swag, tour, travel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който не пада духом, весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), плаващ (afloat, floatable, floating, movable, natatorial, natatory). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轻飘飘, 渢 (floating). (various references) | |
Czech | vzplývavý, vznosný, vzkvétající (booming, healthy), vzestupný (upward), schopný plout, optimistický (optimistic, sanguine, sunny). (various references) | |
Farsi | سبکروح (Bouncy), سبک (Gossamer, Levigate, Levity, Mode, Order, Phraseology, Portable, Soft, Structure, Style, Thin, Volatile), خوشدل (Buxom, Happy), شناور (Adrift, Afloat). (various references) | |
Finnish | keveällä mielellä (in buoyant spirits, light at heart). (various references) | |
French | plein d'entrain, flottant, flottable, ferme, content, actif (bustling, busy). (various references) | |
German | schwimmend (afloat, buoyantly, floating, swimming). (various references) | |
Greek | κεφάτοσ (cheerful, jaunty, jovial, merry), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), ελαφρόσ (feathery, flippant, frivolous, gentle, light, lightsome, resilient, skin deep, slight, yeasty), αλλέγροσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ציפ י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | úszóképes (seaworthy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bisa mengapung, ringan (bright, mild). (various references) | |
Italian | vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), galleggiante (barge, float, floater, floating), elastico (elastic, resilient, rubber band, springy, stretchy, supple, whippy), che può o fa galleggiare, allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浮き浮き (cheerful, cheery, lighthearted), 気軽い (cheerful, lighthearted), 気軽 (cheerful, lighthearted). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きがるい (cheerful, lighthearted), きがる (cheerful, lighthearted), うきうき (cheerful, cheery, lighthearted). (various references) | |
Korean | 잘 뜨". (various references) | |
Manx | snaueagh (creepy, swimming), lane dy chree as d'aigney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uoyantbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), leve (fleet-footed, flowing, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, light, light-legged, remote, sleazy, slight, slim, tenuous, tripping, weightless), flutuante (afloat, awash, floating, flowing, flying, supernatant, unfunded, wavy), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Romanian | plutitor (float, floatable, floating, swimmer), optimist (bright, elastic, hopeful, optimist, optimistic, resilient, sanguine), flotabil (floatable), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), elastic (ductile, elastic, elastically, extensible, flexibile, rebounding, resilient, springy, supple, tensile, yielding). (various references) | |
Russian | плавучий (floatable, floating, floaty). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bodrost, svežina (coolness, crispness, flush, freshness, greenness, lustiness), plovan (navigable, water borne), plivajući (floating). (various references) | |
Spanish | flotante (adrift, afloat, aloft, ambulant, braggart, floating, loose, supernatant). (various references) | |
Swedish | bärande (carry, carrying). (various references) | |
Thai | ลอยตัว (buoy). (various references) | |
Turkish | batmaz, yüzen (floating, natant), yüksek (above, acro-, Clarion, elevated, exalted, high, highrise, hyper-, lofty, loud, over, penetrating, penetrative, spheric, stately, superior, tall), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), kaygısız (carefree, careless, freewheeling, gaily, insouciant, jaunty, light hearted, unconcerned). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | житт"радісний (blithe, canty, chirpy, exuberant, jocund, resilient), плавучий (floatable, floating). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nổi (raised). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "buoyant": buoyantly. (additional references) | |
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"Buoyant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bakoyanni, Bhuiyan, boant, bouyant, boyan, boyant, buayant, budokan, Bulyanda, buouyant, buoyont, buyont, buyount, Ubaydat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "buoyant" (pronounced boy"unt) |
| 5 | b oy" u n t | flamboyant. |
| 4 | -oy" u n t | clairvoyant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, celebrant, claimant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-n-o-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: botany, bounty. | |
-2 letters: about, atony, aunty, banty, baton, bayou, bunya, outby, tabun. | |
-3 letters: abut, aunt, auto, boat, bony, bota, bout, bunt, buoy, nota, tabu, toby, tony, tuba, tuna, unto, yuan. | |
-4 letters: abo, aby, ant, any, ban, bat, bay, boa, bot, boy, bun, but, buy, nab, nay, nob, not, nub, nut, oat, out, tab, tan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-n-o-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: buoyantly, countably. | |
+3 letters: butylation, incubatory. | |
+4 letters: ablutionary, accountably, backcountry, butylations, subcontrary, unstoppably. | |
+5 letters: autoantibody, binocularity, connubiality, constabulary, countability, incommutably, incomputably, questionably, subnormality, unflamboyant, unprofitably. | |
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