Usually means: Able to float in water.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. buoyant: Merriam-Webster
  2. buoyant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buoyant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buoyant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buoyant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buoyant, buoyant: Wordnik
  7. buoyant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. buoyant: Wiktionary
  9. buoyant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buoyant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buoyant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. buoyant: Dictionary.com
  13. buoyant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buoyant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Buoyant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buoyant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buoyant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buoyant: Rhymezone
  19. Buoyant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buoyant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. buoyant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. buoyant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. buoyant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. buoyant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buoyant: Investopedia
  2. buoyant: Legal dictionary
  3. buoyant: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buoyant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buoyant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See buoyantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having buoyancy; able to float.
adjective:  (figuratively) Lighthearted and lively.
adjective:  Involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity. (of an economy, business etc.)

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