afloat
Meaning of afloat
adjective
- floating in water; not sinking.
they trod water to keep afloat
the canoes were still afloat
- out of debt or difficulty.
professional management will be needed to keep firms afloat
Old English on flote (see a-2, float), influenced in Middle English by Old Norse á flot(i ) and Old French en flot .
Information about afloat
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of afloat
afloat
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- afloat is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
afloat synonyms
Meaning adrift:
adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected
Meaning awash:
awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing
Meaning able or tending to keep afloat or rise to the top of a liquid or gas:
Meaning buoyant or suspended in water or air:
Meaning (of a sentence) imposed by a judge or court but not enforced as long as no further offence is committed within a specified period:
Meaning carried slowly by a current of air or water:
afloat antonyms
Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:
Translation of afloat
Words that rhyme with afloat
bloat, bobfloat, carfloat, firefloat, float, outfloat, overfloat, refloat, unafloat, upfloat, gloat, ploat, sloat
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