Dictionary Definition
afloat adj
1 aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p),
afloat(p),
aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected]
3 covered with water; "the main deck was afloat
(or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded
bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub" [syn:
afloat(p),
awash(p),
flooded, inundated, overflowing]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊt
Adverb
- floating
- out at sea
- making successful progress under one's own steam
Translations
floating
- Finnish: pinnalla
at sea
- Finnish: merellä
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aboard,
accidental, accompanying, ado, adrift, afoot, all aboard, aloft, alternating, amorphous, astir, at flood, at sea, athwart
the hawse, athwarthawse, awash, aweigh, bandied about, before the
mast, bruited about, by sea, by water, capricious, cast-off,
changeable, changeful, circumstantial, clear, current, deluged, desultory, deviable, dizzy, doing, drowned, eccentric, engulfed, erratic, eventuating, fast and loose,
fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, flooded, fluctuating, freakish, free, giddy, going about, going around,
going on, happening,
impetuous, impulsive, in circulation, in
hand, in sail, in spate, in the air, in the news, in the wind,
incidental, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, inflood, inundated, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, loose, made public, mazy, mercurial, moody, occasional, occurring, on, on board, on board ship, on deck,
on foot, on shipboard, ongoing, overwhelmed, passing, prevailing, prevalent, rambling, reported, restless, resultant, rickety, rife, roving, rumored, scatterbrained, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, started, swamped, swept, taking place, talked about,
topside, unaccountable, unanchored, unbound, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, under way,
undisciplined,
undone, unfastened, unfixed, unmoored, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water,
unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unstuck, untied, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous,
volatile, wandering, wanton, washed, water-borne,
water-washed, wavering,
wavery, wavy, wayward, whelmed, whimsical, whispered, whispered about,
wishy-washy