floaty

[ floh-tee ]

adjective

, float·i·er, float·i·est.

1. able to float; buoyant:

   What are these floaty things in my tea?

2. thin and lightweight; billowy:

   They've used floaty, sheer fabrics for the warmer weather.

3. (of a boat) requiring little water to float.

noun

, plural float·ies.

1. floatie ( def ).

ˈfloaty

/ ˈfləʊtɪ /

adjective

1. filmy and light

   floaty material

2. capable of floating; buoyant
3. (of a vessel) riding high in the water; of shallow draught

Word History and Origins

Origin of floaty¹

First recorded in 1600–10; float + -y ¹( def )

Example Sentences

If you stick to open slopes and ski a lot of new snow each winter, the 111 is a stout and floaty weapon.

From Outside Online

Often, the parts I remember aren’t the floaty first tracks or the rail-to-rail groomer arcs.

From Outside Online

A superficial knowledge of tap’s giddier and gauzier manifestations — polished Broadway capering, floaty sequences in Golden Age films — might make the coincidence seem jarring.

From Washington Post

We know nothing about his family or home life, and very little about hers, though in one of the movie’s many hyperstylized artistic touches, we see a floaty image of her with a bruised eye, an allusion to some sort of past abuse.

From Time

It’s a different sensation than the feel-good, floaty vibes, brah, of bounding through powder like a dolphin rolling on dopamine.

From Outside Online

What stand out in my mind are the mirrored closets in her bedroom filled with shimmering, floaty evening gowns and caftans.

From The Daily Beast

It was just as nice to have solid things very solid, as it was to have floaty things like clouds very floaty.

From Project Gutenberg

"I expect what you need for that floaty feeling, dearie, is a good dose of calomel—" and she hurried away to prepare it.

From Project Gutenberg

So I tried to escape, tried to be the moon; tried to feel floaty and shining and beautiful, and—and remote.

From Project Gutenberg

Father was like the solid ground and Mother was like the floaty clouds.

From Project Gutenberg