[ US /ˈbɔɪənt/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔ‍ɪənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness
    buoyant spirits
    his quick wit and chirpy humor
    looking bright and well and chirpy
    a perky little widow in her 70s
  2. tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas
    a floaty scarf
    buoyant balsawood boats
    buoyant balloons
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How To Use buoyant In A Sentence

  • Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
  • It's soundproof and completely dark, and I go in there for a couple of hours at a time, You don't realize how much stress you carry around in your muscles and tissue until you lie in this completely buoyant environment.
  • The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.
  • This decline was due partly to the generally buoyant economy that saw fewer people filing claims. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
  • October 31 was a good day with a \ "vigorous, buoyant rally from bell to bell\". Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The shell contains a gas which makes it semi-buoyant, permitting the nautilus to change depth and to swim.
  • After about ten minutes of surfing through this site, I feel buoyant and hopeful once again.
  • Excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks is much less buoyant than total excise duty.
  • They were all in buoyant mood.
  • It takes a very buoyant personality to cope with constant rejection.
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