buoyant
adjective
, ˈbü-yənt\
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Synonyms & Antonyms for buoyant
Synonyms
blithe, blithesome, bright, canty [British dialect], cheerful, cheery, chipper, eupeptic, gay, gladsome, lightsome, sunny, upbeat, winsome
Antonyms
dour, gloomy, glum, morose, saturnine, sulky, sullen
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Here's how the two teams got on in their last five matches: Villa boss Smith knows the importance of this fixture, because even though his squad will still be buoyant following a successful summer of recruitment, that bubble can burst very quickly. — SI.com, "Aston Villa vs Everton Preview: Where to Watch, Buy Tickets, Live Stream, Kick Off Time & Team News," 20 Aug. 2019 Briseyda Lisseth Chicas Perez, 20, a one-time hometown beauty queen known for her buoyant personality, headed north last month with her husband and their two small children. — Patrick J. Mcdonnell, latimes.com, "Death at the border: 4 from Guatemala, 3 of them children, succumb to heat in Texas," 8 July 2019 Still, the atmosphere was buoyant, as people sought to stay cool yet embrace the heat blast from the south. — Kirsten Grieshaber, chicagotribune.com, "Europe’s heat wave: It was 108.7 degrees in Paris on Thursday. Since measurements began, Belgium has never had a hotter day.," 25 July 2019 The adjectives that loop around these titles are often simply descriptors of summer-ness: airy, buoyant, salty, sunny, breezy. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, "The Invention of the “Beach Read”," 14 June 2019 When a worker raises his arms, the exoskeleton provides a counterweight that makes the arms feel buoyant, as if the upper body is suspended in water. — Leigh Kamping-carder, WSJ, "Industrial Exoskeletons Give Workers a Lift," 17 Jan. 2019 The 73rd annual Tonys ceremony, held at Radio City Music Hall, was a night more buoyant than surprising. — Michael Paulson, New York Times, "Who Won and What Happened at the 2019 Tony Awards," 9 June 2019 The ants form air pockets by pushing away from whichever ants they are connected to, creating highly buoyant rafts that are 75 percent air. — Quanta Magazine, "The Remarkable Self-Organization of Ants," 9 Apr. 2014 Insidious arguments have even claimed African Americans are less buoyant than whites because of the way African American muscles respond in cold water. — Byron Mccauley, Cincinnati.com, "The fatal drowning rate for black kids is stark. History is part of that.," 13 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'buoyant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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buoyant
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