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Synonyms for buoyant

Most common

cheerful sanguine floating floaty

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Successful — involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity. (of an economy, business etc.)

successful, thriving

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity. (of an economy, business etc.)

  2. adj. 2

    Having buoyancy; able to float.

Related words

Word family
buoyantly buoyancy buoy

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or Buoyant?

A buoyant spirit is, as it were, borne up by joy and hope.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • cheerful She is loved by everybody because she is cheerful.
  • sanguine They were sanguine about the company's prospects.
  • floating A white cloud is floating in the blue summer sky.
  • floaty How do you deflate this floaty?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
buoyantfalling
cheerfulrising
sanguinesteady
floatingsteady
floatyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
gay1
4 letters
airy2
5 letters
light1, happy2, merry2
6 letters
bright1, lively2, joyful2, joyous2, elated3, blithe1, floaty, chirpy2
7 letters
elastic3
8 letters
floating2, animated4, thriving2, cheerful2, spirited3, sanguine2, sportive
9 letters
exuberant4, vivacious3, lightsome
10 letters
successful3
12 letters
effervescent4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (airy2 = 2 syllables).