Synonyms for floating
ˈfloʊ tɪŋfloat·ing

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1. floating, natationadjective

   the act of someone who floats on the water

   Synonyms:
   natation

   Antonyms:
   committed, settled, immobile, aground(p), fixed

2. floatingadjective

   borne up by or suspended in a liquid

   "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"

   Synonyms:
   vagabond, floating(a), aimless, drifting, vagrant

   Antonyms:
   immobile, committed, settled, aground(p), fixed

3. aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrantadjective

   continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

   "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

   Synonyms:
   rootless, rudderless, vagrant, planless, undirected, directionless, aimless, vagabond, drifting, adrift(p), floating(a), afloat(p)

   Antonyms:
   aground(p), immobile, committed, fixed, settled

4. floatingadjective

   inclined to move or be moved about

   "a floating crap game"

   Synonyms:
   vagabond, floating(a), aimless, drifting, vagrant

   Antonyms:
   aground(p), fixed, immobile, committed, settled

5. floating(a)adjective

   (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"

   Antonyms:
   aground(p), committed, fixed, settled, immobile

6. floating(a)adjective

   not definitely committed to a party or policy

   "floating voters"

   Antonyms:
   fixed, immobile, settled, aground(p), committed

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1. natant

   floating or swimming horizontally

   every learner must learn natant in swimming

   Submitted by ochukopeace5 on January 13, 2020  

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1. floatingadjective

   Synonyms:
   supernatant

2. floatingnoun

   Synonyms:
   flotation, flotage, supernatation

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1. List of paraphrases for "floating":

   fly-out, buoyant, variable, vertebral, free-floating, drifting, fleet, inline, fluctuations, hovering

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1. Martin Garside:

   It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

2. George Yankey:

   Our plant and other systems are in good health but we've had to shut down due to an unplanned disruption in supplies from the FPSO (floating, production, storage and offloading vessel).

3. Andrew Karp:

   If they are swapping back into dollars in a floating rate equivalent, they care more about spread levels rather than rates. The movement in the basis swap continues to make dollars more attractive, and that trend should continue.

4. Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah:

   There are huge amounts of cash floating around, weapons and ammunition.

5. William S. Burroughs:

   Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.