| Main Entry: | float |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie on the surface |
Synonyms: |
be buoyant, bob, drift, glide, hang, hover, move gently, poise, rest on water, ride, sail, skim, slide, slip along, smooth along, stay afloat, swim, waft, wash |
Antonyms: |
drown, sink |
| Main Entry: | floating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | buoyant |
Synonyms: |
free, hollow, hovering, inflated, light, loose, nonsubmersible, sailing, soaring, swimming, unattached, unsinkable, unsubstantial, volatile, wafting |
Antonyms: |
heavy, submerged, sunk |
| Main Entry: | aquatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | occurring in water |
Synonyms: |
amphibian, amphibious, floating, marine, maritime, natatory, oceanic, of the sea, sea, swimming, watery |
| Main Entry: | ascend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go up |
Synonyms: |
arise, climb, escalate, float, fly, lift off, mount, move up, rise, scale, soar, sprout, take off, tower |
Antonyms: |
decline, descend, go down, lower |
| Main Entry: | blissful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
beatific, cool*, crazy, delighted, dreamy, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, enraptured, euphoric, floating*, flying*, gone*, heavenly, in ecstasy, in seventh heaven, in the twilight zone, joyful, joyous, mad*, on cloud nine, rapturous, sent, spaced-out, turned-on |
Antonyms: |
grieving, miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, wretched |
| Main Entry: | buoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in weight |
Synonyms: |
afloat, airy, bouncy, floatable, floating, resilient, supernatant, unsinkable, weightless |
Antonyms: |
heavy, weighted |
| Main Entry: | coast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | glide along without much effort |
Synonyms: |
cruise, drift, float, freewheel, get by, ride on current, sail, skate, slide, smooth along, taxi |
| Notes: | the difference between a coast and the shore is the coast is the seaward limit of the land and the shore is the landward limit of the sea shore is the general word for an edge of land directly bordering a body of water; coast is limited to land along a sea or ocean |
| Main Entry: | dart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | race away; propel |
Synonyms: |
bound, career, cast, course, dash, flash, fling, flit, float, fly, gallop, hasten, heave, hurry, hurtle, launch, move quickly, pitch, plunge, run, rush, sail, scamper, scoot, scud, scurry, shoot, skim, speed, spring, sprint, spurt, start, tear, throw, thrust, whiz |
| Main Entry: | drift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move aimlessly |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, aim, amass, amble, be carried along, coast, dance, draw near, flicker, flit, flitter, float, flow, flutter, gad, gallivant*, gather, go with the tide, go-that-a-way, gravitate, hover, kick around, linger, malinger, meander, mosey, muck, ride, sail, saunter, scud, skim, slide, stray, stroll, tend, waft, wander, wash* |
Antonyms: |
decide, direct, guide, set |
| Main Entry: | drugged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under the influence of medication |
Synonyms: |
benumbed, blown away, coked, comatose, dazed, doped, dopey, floating*, flying*, high*, junked-up, loaded, narcotized, on a trip, out of it, ripped, smashed, spaced-out, stoned, strung out, stupefied, unconscious |
Antonyms: |
clean, undrugged |