The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buoyant \Buoy"ant\, a. [From Buoy, v. t. & i.]
Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. ``Buoyant on the flood.''
--Pope.-
Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
The water under me was buoyant.
--Dryden. Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. -- Buoy"ant*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a buoyant manner.
WordNet
adv. in a cheerfully buoyant manner; "we accepted the opportunity buoyantly" [syn: chirpily]
Usage examples of "buoyantly".
A few paces away, the gisant drifted almost buoyantly, only one corner of it dragging along the mirror surface of the star that was a neutron solid with billions of times the rigidity of steel.
Luxi strode across the tram station deck toward the lifts on the far wall, moving buoyantly through the low gravity as though through water.
Twenty small hide curraghs seemingly fit for only ponds and lakes, but rising buoyantly, valiantly following the wake of the larger vessels.
He was at times dimly conscious of his finances, but he buoyantly disregarded the facts, as incompatible with his status as Agatha's betrothed, if not unworthy of his character as a lover in the abstract.
The careless happiness of the children, the apprehension of the parents, promise and fulfilment, enchantment and disenchantment--all these things are expounded by the orchestra in a fine flood of music, highly ingenious in contrapuntal texture, rich in instrumental color, full of rhythmical life, on the surface of which the idyllic play floats buoyantly, like a water-lily which starts and slides Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Tho' anchored to the bottom.
A moment later he was kneeling beside the gas fire and undoing the hose of his gas ring and five minutes afterwards the first of 250 inflated contraceptives bounced buoyantly against the sooty sides of the medieval chimney and disappeared into the night sky above.
I marched buoyantly behind my guide straight into the jaws of death.
Be that as it may, the fact is that I marched buoyantly behind my guide straight into the jaws of death.