floating

  • (s) borne up by or suspended in a liquid
    • the ship is still floating
    • floating logs
    • floating seaweed
  • (s) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
    • a drifting double-dealer
    • the floating population
    • vagrant hippies of the sixties
    drifting, vagrant, aimless, vagabond,
  • (s) inclined to move or be moved about
    • a floating crap game
  • (s) (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position
    • floating ribs are not connected with the sternum
    • a floating kidney
  • (s) not definitely committed to a party or policy
    • floating voters

Nouns

  • (n) the act of someone who floats on the water natation,

Synonyms

natation drifting vagrant aimless vagabond

Words of close approximity

floating bridge floating dock floating dry dock floating fern floating mine floating-moss floating-point notation floating-point number floating-point operation floating-point representation system floating policy floating voter