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adjective

Buoyant adj.

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."

Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. "The water under me was buoyant."

Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.

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Etymology of 'Buoyant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Buoyant" Quotes from Famous Books

... blossoms, for being so great and grand of course they got very much preyed upon, and this was a vast gain for the rose that was near them. She herself leaned against the wall of an orange-house, in company with a Banksia, a buoyant, active, simple-minded thing, for whom Rosa Damascena, who thought herself much better born than these climbers, had a natural contempt. Banksiae will flourish and be content anywhere, they are such easily pleased creatures; and when you cut them they thrive on it, which ...

— Bimbi • Louise de la Ramee

... of my nephews hopelessly enamored and myself the confidant of both, I had my hands full. Daniel was generally dejected and distrustful; Billy buoyant and jolly. Daniel found it impossible to overcome his bashfulness; was spontaneous only in sonnets, brilliant only in bouquets. Billy was always coming to me with pleasant news, told in his slangy New York ...

— Masterpieces Of American Wit And Humor • Thomas L. Masson (Editor)

... passing from a bright buoyant lad into a man, and a man of ardour and conviction. And the chief instrument in the transformation ...

— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... he did under the guidance of his chief than an inherent passion for dangerous adventures. Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, on the other hand, thought perhaps a little less of the adventure, but a great deal of the martyred child in the Temple. He was just as buoyant, just as keen as his friend, but the leaven of sentiment raised his sporting instincts to perhaps a ...

— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy

... herself, and none with whom she could have aught in common. Anne she had pitied, being struck by some sense of the unfairness of her lot as compared with her own. John Oxon had moved her, bringing to her her first knowledge of buoyant, ardent youth, and blooming strength and beauty; for Dunstanwolde she had felt gratitude and affection; but than these there had been no others who even distantly ...

— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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