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AFLOAT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does afloat mean?

• AFLOAT (adjective)
The adjective AFLOAT has 3 senses:

1. aimlessly drifting
2. borne on the water; floating
3. covered with water

Familiarity information: AFLOAT used as an adjective is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• AFLOAT (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Aimlessly drifting

Synonyms:

rudderless; planless; directionless; aimless; afloat; adrift; undirected

Similar:

purposeless (not evidencing any purpose or goal)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Borne on the water; floating

Similar:

adrift (afloat on the surface of a body of water)

floating (borne up by or suspended in a liquid)

waterborne (supported by water)

Antonym:

aground (on a shore or reef)

sunken (under water; e.g. at the bottom of a body of water)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

Covered with water

Synonyms:

awash; flooded; inundated; overflowing; afloat

Context examples:

the main deck was afloat (or awash) / the monsoon left the whole place awash / a flooded bathroom / inundated farmlands / an overflowing tub

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

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