Need another word that means the same as “afloat”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “afloat” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Afloat” are: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected, awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing, buoyant, floating, suspended, drifting, above the surface, on the surface, above water
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “afloat” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
above the surface | Appearing earlier in the same text. |
above water | Appearing earlier in the same text. |
adrift | Failing to reach a target or winning position. The film s focus is a young woman adrift in a city where individuals struggle to make meaningful connections. |
aimless | Aimlessly drifting. An aimless existence. |
awash | Covered or flooded with water, especially seawater or rain. The monsoon left the whole place awash. |
buoyant | (of an economy, business, or market) involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity. Buoyant water. |
directionless | Lacking in general aim or purpose. Music which bordered on directionless experimentalism. |
drifting | Moving passively, aimlessly, or involuntarily. Long stretches of drifting snow. |
floating | Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. The floating population. |
flooded | Covered with water. A flooded bathroom. |
inundated | Covered with water. Inundated farmlands. |
on the surface | On the surface. |
overflowing | Covered with water. An overflowing ashtray. |
planless | Aimlessly drifting. |
rudderless | Lacking a clear sense of one’s aims or principles. Today s leadership is rudderless. |
suspended | (of a sentence) imposed by a judge or court but not enforced as long as no further offence is committed within a specified period. Small vents in the suspended ceilings supply fresh air. |
undirected | Aimlessly drifting. She was full of ineffectual undirected anger. |
adrift | Floating freely; not anchored. The film industry was adrift in a sea of debt. |
aimless | Aimlessly drifting. An aimless existence. |
aimlessly | Without purpose or direction. We wandered aimlessly round Venice. |
beggar | Reduce to beggary. Why should I beggar myself for you. |
buoy | Mark with a buoy. Shares were up 4p buoyed by his cut and thrust management style. |
cast | Make a moulded object by casting metal. Cast a bronze sculpture. |
derelict | Forsaken by owner or inhabitants. The barge lay derelict for years. |
drift | Move in an unhurried fashion. Excited voices drifted down the hall. |
float | A drink with ice cream floating in it. He floated the kick into the net. |
floating | (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position. A floating platform. |
floe | A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea. |
flooded | Covered with water. A flooded bathroom. |
ice | A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating. Americans like ice in their drinks. |
limitless | Without limits in extent or size or quantity. The limitless reaches of outer space. |
melt | A quantity of metal melted in one operation. Richard gave her a smile that melted her heart. |
migrate | (of a person) move to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions. Cells that can form pigment migrate beneath the skin. |
nomadic | Migratory. The nomadic habits of the Bedouins. |
roam | Move about or travel aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area. He let his eyes roam her face. |
roving | (of a person in relation to their job) travelling or required to travel to different locations. A roving correspondent for CNN. |
rudderless | Lacking a clear sense of one’s aims or principles. Today s leadership is rudderless. |
truant | Of a pupil being a truant. If my daughter had been truanting from school I would have been informed. |
undirected | Lacking direction; without a particular aim, purpose, or target. She was full of ineffectual undirected anger. |
unsettled | Not settled or established. An unsettled issue. |
vacant | Void of intelligence or thought. A vacant stare. |
vagabond | Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place. He went vagabonding about the world. |
vagrant | Relating to or living the life of a vagrant. Vagrant hippies of the sixties. |
wanderer | A person who travels aimlessly. He is a longtime seaman a rootless wanderer. |
wandering | Having no fixed course. His life followed a wandering course. |
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