Definitions for afloat

afloat a·float

Spelling: [uh-floht]
IPA: /əˈfloʊt/

Afloat is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in afloat (aaflot).

Definitions for afloat

adverb, adjective

  1. floating or borne on the water; in a floating condition:
  2. on board a ship, boat, raft, etc.; at sea:
  3. covered with water; flooded; awash:
  4. moving without being guided or controlled; drifting.
  5. passing from place to place; in circulation:
  6. free of major trouble, especially financially solvent:

Origin of afloat

before 1000; Middle English, Old English on flote. See a-1, float

Examples for afloat

How it had got afloat upon the sea, is more than I can tell you.

Sheldon Adelson kept Newt afloat long after the voters stopped caring.

From the quiet swaying of the floor beneath me I soon sensed that we were afloat.

They are the ones who generate the goods and services, the advertising dollars and tax revenue, that keep the rest of us afloat.

That keeps him afloat with some forward direction, especially given the upcoming primary states where he has a demographic edge.

I never was more completely adrift, in my life, ashore or afloat.

A thousand schemes were afloat in his mind about the future, of the most improbable kind.

Pierce senior set it afloat; that is, he and Mark Galloway together.

He had been sea-sick, but she had seemed unaware of the fact that she was afloat on a rough sea.

I could not swim a stroke, and it crossed my mind to get one of the sweeps to keep me afloat.

Word Value for afloat
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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