Synonyms and Antonyms of buoyant
- all the fans were buoyant the day after the big win in the play-offs
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, chirpy, jaunty, lilting, lively, perky, sprightful, sprightly, vivacious
carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned
boon, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful
blissful, delighted, glad, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, tickled
joyless, sad, unhappy, unsatisfied
dull, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid
blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, hangdog, heavyhearted, inconsolable, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mirthless, sorrowful
- gave him a buoyant hug and kiss upon meeting him at the airport
bouncy, bubbly, crank [chiefly dialect], effervescent, exuberant, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, high-spirited, vivacious
extroverted (also extraverted), outgoing, uninhibited
carefree, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, joyful, lighthearted, lively, sprightly
boisterous, raucous, rollicking, rowdy
giddy, light-headed, overexuberant, silly
ecstatic, euphoric, lyric, rapturous
audacious, bold, brash, brazen, impertinent, impudent, insolent, saucy
constrained, inhibited, repressed, restrained, subdued
impassive, phlegmatic, stoic (or stoical), stolid