Definition
able to float; cheerful and optimistic
In a sentence
“Her buoyant spirits lifted everyone's mood.”
Similar words
- cheerful
- lighthearted
Related vocabulary
Why this word matters: buoyant appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.