floaty
Light and airy
Floaty describes something light and airy, tending to drift or hover rather than sink or settle.
A floaty dress billows gently; a floaty feeling suggests pleasant lightness or dreaminess.
The word often carries a whimsical quality: She felt floaty after the massage.
In British slang, floaties are inflatable armbands children wear while learning to swim.
Thin and insubstantial
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- featheryLight and soft-textured
- fluffySoft and light-textured
- billowySwelling in soft waves
ethereal · delicate · weightless · diaphanous · gauzy · insubstantial · vaporous · cloudlike
Delicate transparent textile
- tulleFine net fabric
- organzaSheer, crisp dress fabric
- voileSheer, lightweight textile
- georgetteSheer, crinkled dress fabric
silk · gossamer · sheer · billowy · flouncy · ruffles · flowing · diaphanous
Moving without purpose
- glidingEngineless aerial movement
- waftingFloating through air
- hoveringSuspended without support
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
coasting · swaying · fluttering · undulating · swirling · suspended · sailing · skimming
Shocked into mental fog
- spaced-outMentally detached, unfocused
- unfocusedWithout clear direction
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- hazyUnclear, indistinct
vague · distracted · trancelike · abstracted · woozy · lightheaded · otherworldly · disconnected
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- celestialOf the sky above
transcendent · spiritual · incorporeal · intangible · apparitional · wraithlike · supernatural · haunting
Rhythmic vertical movement
- buoyancyFluid's upward resistance
- inflatableExpandable by air
- lifejacketBuoyant vest for water
- lifebuoyThrowable flotation device
cork · raft · pontoon · swim · unsinkable · drifting · surface · afloat
wispy
Thin and insubstantial
billowy · ethereal · delicate · weightless · diaphanous · gauzy · insubstantial · vaporous · cloudlike · soft
chiffon
Delicate transparent textile
georgette · silk · gossamer · sheer · billowy · flouncy · ruffles · flowing · diaphanous · layered
drifting
Moving without purpose
meandering · coasting · swaying · fluttering · undulating · swirling · suspended · sailing · skimming · lilting
dazed
Shocked into mental fog
- spaced-outMentally detached, unfocused
- unfocusedWithout clear direction
- detachedApart or uninvolved
hazy · vague · distracted · trancelike · abstracted · woozy · lightheaded · otherworldly · disconnected · zoned-out
ghostly
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
celestial · transcendent · spiritual · incorporeal · intangible · apparitional · wraithlike · supernatural · haunting · unearthly
bobbing
Rhythmic vertical movement
- buoyancyFluid's upward resistance
- inflatableExpandable by air
- lifejacketBuoyant vest for water
lifebuoy · cork · raft · pontoon · swim · unsinkable · drifting · surface · afloat · bladder
- Ride Qualitysmoothness, comfort, handling, suspension, bumpy
- key accessorieskey ring, key fob, key chain, split ring, key holder
- captivatedspellbound, entranced, enthralled, mesmerized, rapt
- delicatedelicate, fragile, dainty, frail, tender
- whimsicalwhimsical, whimsy, fanciful, playful, quirky
- action camerasGoPro, action cam, Session, Max, DJI
floatyheavy
Of great mass
stiff · structured · rigid · clingy · form-fitting
- floating aroundMoving without fixed course
- root beer floatIce cream in soda
- float aroundMove without fixed course
- whatever floats your boatPersonal preference accepted
- ice cream floatSoda topped with frozen dairy
- parade floatsDecorated platforms in marches
float, floating, floated, floats, floater, floaties, floatation, floatiest, floatier