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| Main Entry: | floating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | buoyant |
| Synonyms: | free, hollow, inflated, light, loose, soaring, swimming, unattached, unsubstantial, volatile, hovering, nonsubmersible, sailing, unsinkable, wafting |
| Antonyms: | heavy, submerged, sunk |
| Main Entry: | float |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie on the surface |
| Synonyms: | bob, drift, glide, hang, hover, poise, ride, sail, skim, slide, swim, waft, wash, be buoyant, move gently, rest on water, slip along, smooth along, stay afloat |
| Antonyms: | drown, sink |
| Main Entry: | aquatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | occurring in water |
| Synonyms: | amphibian, floating, marine, maritime, oceanic, sea, swimming, watery, amphibious, natatory, of the sea |
| Main Entry: | blissful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | beatific, cool*, crazy, delighted, dreamy, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, floating*, flying*, gone*, heavenly, joyful, joyous, mad*, on cloud nine*, rapturous, sent, enraptured, euphoric, in ecstasy, in seventh heaven, in the twilight zone, spaced-out, turned-on |
| Antonyms: | miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, wretched, grieving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drugged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under the influence of medication |
| Synonyms: | comatose, dazed, dopey*, floating*, flying*, high*, loaded, smashed*, stoned*, stupefied, unconscious, benumbed, blown away, coked, doped, junked-up, narcotized, on a trip, out of it, ripped, spaced-out, strung out |
| Antonyms: | clean, undrugged |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ecstatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, blissful |
| Synonyms: | beatific, crazy, delirious, dreamy, elated, enthusiastic, fervent, floating, frenzied, gone*, high*, joyful, joyous, mad, on cloud nine*, out, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic, sent, sunny, thrilled, tickled pink*, transported, upbeat, wild, athrill, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, flying high, in exaltation, in seventh heaven, pleased as punch, ravished, tickled to death, turned on |
| Antonyms: | sorrowful, troubled, unhappy, despaired, tormented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the air, winged |
| Synonyms: | aerial, express, fleet, floating, mercurial, mobile, soaring, speedy, aeronautical, airborne, avian, drifting, flapping, fluttering, gliding, hovering, on the wing, plumed, streaming, swooping, volant, volar, volitant, waving, winging, zooming |
| Antonyms: | ground, grounded |
| Main Entry: | itinerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roaming |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, migratory, moving, nomadic, peripatetic, ranging, roving, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring, ambulant, journeying, on foot, riding the rails, shifting, travelling |
| Antonyms: | permanent, settled |
| Main Entry: | uncommitted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free; not involved |
| Synonyms: | cut loose*, don't care, fence-sitting, floating, free-spirited, laid-back*, middle ground*, middle of the road*, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, on the fence*, restrained, unaffiliated, unattached, uninvolved, unpledged |
| Antonyms: | aligned, attached, committed, involved, united |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unrealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not believable or practical |
| Synonyms: | floating, gone*, half-baked*, impossible, impracticable, impractical, improbable, nonsensical, on cloud nine*, quixotic, romantic, silly, starry-eyed, theoretical, unreal, blue sky, ivory-tower, nonrealistic, not applicable, not sensible, reachy, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | believable, practical, pragmatic, realistic, reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wayfaring |
| Synonyms: | floating, moving, rambling, roaming, traveling, wandering |
| Main Entry: | swimming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | water sport |
| Synonyms: | floating, aquatics, natation |
| Main Entry: | buoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in weight |
| Synonyms: | afloat, airy, floating, resilient, bouncy, floatable, supernatant, unsinkable, weightless |
| Antonyms: | heavy, weighted |
| Main Entry: | loose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not tight; unconstrained |
| Synonyms: | apart, asunder, baggy, clear, detached, disconnected, easy, escaped, flabby, flaccid, floating, free, hanging, insecure, lax, limp, movable, released, separate, slack, sloppy, unattached, unconnected, undone, unfettered, unhinged, unlocked, unrestrained, unrestricted, untied, wobbly, at large, liberated, loosened, not fitting, relaxed, slackened, unbolted, unbound, unbuttoned, uncaged, unclasped, unconfined, unfastened, unhooked, unlatched, unpinned, unsecured, unshackled |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | restricted, taut, tight, constrained |
| Main Entry: | fluid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, changeable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, flexible, floating, indefinite, malleable, mercurial, mobile, mutable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, changeful, fluctuating, protean, shifting |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, stable, unchangeable |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not heavy |
| Synonyms: | agile, airy, atmospheric, buoyant, crumbly, dainty, delicate, downy, easy, effervescent, ethereal, feathery, filmy, flimsy, floating, fluffy, friable, frothy, graceful, inconsequential, insubstantial, lightweight, lithe, little, loose, meager, nimble, petty, porous, portable, sandy, sheer, slender, slight, small, spongy, sprightly, thin, trifling, trivial, unsubstantial, featherweight, floatable, gossamery, imponderous, light-footed, sylphlike, tissuelike, unheavy, weightless |
| Antonyms: | heavy, weighted |
| Main Entry: | ascend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go up |
| Synonyms: | arise, climb, escalate, float, fly, mount, rise, scale, soar, sprout, take off, tower, lift off, move up |
| Antonyms: | decline, descend, go down, lower |
| Main Entry: | coast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | glide along without much effort |
| Synonyms: | cruise, drift, float, get by*, sail, skate, slide, freewheel, ride on current, smooth along, taxi |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, pitch, plunge, run, rush, sail, scamper, scoot, scud, scurry, shoot, skim, speed, spring, sprint, spurt, start, tear, throw, thrust, whiz, move quickly |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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