buoyant
9
5.3
- adjective
- /ˈbɔɪənt/
- Specialized
:
flotante
- The buoyant material of the floaty allows it to rise easily to the surface.
- buoyant force
It's it's it's neutrally buoyant, floating, swimming in the water.
- It's it's it's neutrally buoyant, floating, swimming in the water.
- The atmosphere, being a fluid, has a buoyant force operating on you.
- A mask floats above, buoyant and empty.
- Same thing would happen if you pushed it down, it would become negatively buoyant and it would then drop further.
- But in air, air isn't very dense, and so you have to have a really big volume to displace the amount of air to get a strong buoyant force upward.
- There's one in the nose, one in the rear, and technically air inside the cabin also helps you be buoyant.
- So I hope I've convinced you here that, all right, this is a, these could be buoyant respiratory jets and puffs.
Examples
-
In winter, the lavender house seems to float in midair, buoyant and magical as a house in a child's storybook.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sleep was like a surface of salt water, so buoyant that it would not let him sink.
Fiction book (2000) -
Several groups are developing buoyant devices to harvest this energy.
Academic text (2006) -
The atmosphere, being a fluid, has a buoyant force operating on you.
-
It's so buoyant, it actually floats!
-
In addition, his submersibles will operate at all times in a positively buoyant state, which provides a big safety benefit.
Academic text (1993) -
A surfboard is as buoyant as a cork.
-
It keeps you so buoyant because of the salt content that it's hard to even just swim down because it's trying to push you up all the time.
-
The life jacket is buoyant, keeping you afloat in the water.
-
When the child jumped into the pool, the buoyant beach ball floated right beside him.
Synonyms
4
4.2
Light, soft fabric like a dress or curtains that moves easily in the air
1
2.0
Floating on water like a boat and not sinking
1
6.8
Able to rise and float in the air like a balloon or airship
Can float on water or stay in the air
Floating on water without sinking
A craft or object that floats on water like a boat
Small pieces that float in water or air and do not sink
Antonyms
Compounds
How Buoyant
- Specialized
9
5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buoyant comes from the same idea as the word buoy, a floating marker, and from old French words meaning 'to float'. So to be buoyant is to be able to 'float' or rise easily in water or air.