buoyant.

1. Tending to float or remain supported in a liquid or gas.

2. Cheerful, hopeful, and readily recovering from discouragement.

3. Showing strong demand, activity, or favorable economic performance.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a buoyant object
• buoyant material

On the page

The buoyant casing rose through the floodwater with its label still intact.

Air trapped inside the structure kept the wreckage buoyant.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more buoyant; superlative most buoyant where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.