Afloat synonyms

ə-flōt'

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adrift
Without direction or purpose:
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floating
Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
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loose
Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted:
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at-sea
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beached (antonym)
Run or brought ashore
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sailing
Driven by wind on sails
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on board ship
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seaworthy
Fit for service at sea.
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flooded
Filled with too much fluid.
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on the high seas
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in-service
Designating or of training, as through special courses, workshops, etc., given to employees in connection with their work
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ashore (antonym)
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docked (antonym)
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asea
On the ocean; on a boat on the ocean.
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circulating
Moving about freely.
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natant
Swimming or floating; esp., floating on the surface of water
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operating
That operates
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rumored
Widely reported without strong evidence.
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awash
Floating on or as if on waves.
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overflowing
covered with water
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aimless
Having no aim or purpose
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planless
Without a plan.
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rudderless
Lacking in direction, control, or coherence:
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undirected
Having no prescribed destination. Used of mail.
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aground (antonym)
(Nautical, of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.
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water-borne
Alternative spelling of waterborne.
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water-washed
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inflood
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under-sail (related)
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head-to-wind (related)
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drifting
Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
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untied
Not tied; undone
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unfixed
Not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely
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on the seas
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Afloat Sentence Examples

  • Navy and is the oldest, technically active warship afloat.

  • that much of the yield of 1906 was afloat or undespatched at the close of that year.

  • In the early part of the Revolutionary war, ill health kept him at home, and it was not until 1797 that he went afloat again.

  • The customs and political surveillance along the coast is entrusted, afloat, to the Massawa naval station, and, ashore, to a coastguard company 400 strong stationed at Meder, with detachments at Assab, Massawa, Raheita, Edd and Taclai.

  • buoyancy of the water keep me afloat.

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