[
US
/ˈbɔɪənt/
]
[ UK /bˈɔɪənt/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔɪənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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 -
tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas
a floaty scarf
buoyant balsawood boats
buoyant balloons
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.