Definitions for buoyant

buoyant buoy·ant

Spelling: [boi-uh nt, boo-yuh nt]
IPA: /ˈbɔɪ ənt, ˈbu yənt/

Buoyant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in buoyant (abnotuy).

Definitions for buoyant

adjective

  1. tending to float in a fluid.
  2. capable of keeping a body afloat, as a liquid.
  3. not easily depressed; cheerful.
  4. cheering or invigorating.

Origin of buoyant

First recorded in 1570-80; buoy + -ant

Examples for buoyant

It was difficult to remain long angry with so buoyant a nature.

It was in this buoyant baby boom atmosphere that my parents grew up.

Nor, as the days went by, did this buoyant happiness ever fail him.

Seeger showed Springsteen that political music could be buoyant, even as it dealt with the weightiest issues.

Hydrogen is the lightest and consequently the most buoyant of all known gases.

I breathed freely, and my form seemed to expand itself with buoyant life.

The little girl who had once stood there with a bouquet was out in California, a buoyant and youthful 66 years old.

What is less convincing is her buoyant optimism about our odds of survival.

Light and buoyant as the child was, her tightened clasp had begun to tell on him.

The stock market has been buoyant, and interest rates have been rising in part because of expectations of higher economic growth.

Word Value for buoyant
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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