Contact and joining
Synonyms for buoyant
Synonyms for buoyant: floaty and perky. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for buoyant
Interchangeable with buoyant in this sense
Audited under buoyant's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one buoyant carries in that sense.
- floatyadjective, in the sense "tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name buoyant as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- perkyperky is an adjective in the sense "characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness"
one of these comes from buoyant's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas
Buoyant balsawood boats.
The true synonym
floaty
Same sentence, swapped: Floaty balsawood boats.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot buoyant is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- chirpy
- expansive
- vivacious
Where buoyant turns up in the game
buoyant is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where buoyant is the trap
- awashadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is flooded, in the sense "in a state of being flooded or covered with water", and buoyant is on the board beside it.
- debonairadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is suave, in the sense "having a sophisticated charm", and buoyant is one of the three tiles that lose.
- expansiveadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is talkative, in the sense "friendly and open and willing to talk", with buoyant sitting one tile away.
Play buoyant
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so buoyant reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. buoyant carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.