floating synonyms

floating

modif.

buoyant, hollow, unsinkable, nonsubmersible, lighter-than-water, light, swimming, inflated, sailing, soaring, wafting, volatile, loose, free, unsubstantial, hovering, unattached, vagrant.

Antonyms heavy*, submerged, sunk*.

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