buoyant

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Lively Kars stepped into the elevator and was "expressed" to the third floor A few moments later he was looking into the depressed eyes of a youth he had only known as the buoyant, headstrong, north-bred son of Allan Mowbray The change wrought in one brief winter was greater than Kars had feared.

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  1. adjective Having or marked by buoyancy: a buoyant balloon; buoyant spirits.
  2. adjective Lighthearted; gay: in a buoyant mood.

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  • It is the temperament eternally boyish and buoyant, which is on the side of sweetness and light Perhaps it is not what the world means by the artistic temperament. —  The Painter of "Diana of the Tides"
  • Though the general buzz inside the Makuhari Messe convention center here is generally buoyant, the people and companies here aren't immune to what's happening outside the walls. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • As long as the shooting efficiency stays relatively buoyant, and so long as he isn't killing his teammates by not getting them open looks ... it's a relative bonus. —  FanHouse
  • Lively Kars stepped into the elevator and was "expressed" to the third floor A few moments later he was looking into the depressed eyes of a youth he had only known as the buoyant, headstrong, north-bred son of Allan Mowbray The change wrought in one brief winter was greater than Kars had feared. —  The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon
  • They are among the most delicious portraitures that genius ever painted of itself--buoyant, virtuous, happy genius--exulting in its own energies, yet possessed and mastered by a clear, calm, modest mind, and happy only in diffusing happiness around it With what gratification those Epistles were read by the friends to whom they were addressed it is superfluous to show. —  Marmion
 

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light-hearted ·  joyous ·  vivacious ·  boyish ·  cheerful ·  cheery ·  optimistic ·  sanguine ·  confident ·  carefree ·  robust ·  sunny
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  1. Spanish boyante, present participle of boyar, to refloat a boat, from boya, buoy, from Old French boue; see buoy.

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  1. from buoy, v., + -ant.
 

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