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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
buoyant
    adj 1: tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas;
           "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty
           scarf" [syn: buoyant, floaty]
    2: 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" [syn:
       buoyant, chirpy, perky]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Buoyant \Buoy"ant\, a. [From Buoy, v. t. & i.]
   1. Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid;
      tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
      "Buoyant on the flood." --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being
      specifically heavier.
      [1913 Webster]

            The water under me was buoyant.       --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant
      disposition; buoyant spirits. -- Buoy"ant*ly, adv.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for buoyant:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adaptable, adaptive, afloat, airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, breezy, bright, carefree, cheerful, convalescent, corky, debonair, ebullient, effervescent, elastic, expansive, extensile, flexible, flexile, floatable, floating, floaty, free and easy, jaunty, light, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, peppy, perky, recuperative, recuperatory, resilient, responsive, reviviscent, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supernatant, vivacious, volatile
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