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afloat
adj. floating; flooded; passing from one person to another, going around (as in rumors)


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afloat
Adjective
1. aimlessly drifting
(synonym) adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected
(similar) purposeless
2. borne on the water; floating
(synonym) afloat(p)
(antonym) aground(p)
(similar) adrift(p), drifting(a)
3. covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"
(synonym) afloat(p), awash(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing
(similar) full



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Afloat
(adv. & a.)
Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.
  
 
(adv. & a.)
Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
  
 
(adv. & a.)
Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
  

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About

excellence English-Urdu DictionaryDownload this dictionary
afloat
adv.
تيرتا ہؤا , پاني پر , بہتا ہوا , سمندر ميں , جہاز ميں , سبکدوش , پورا , زور پر , پوري شدت کے ساتھ , عام , رائج , مشہور , متزلزل , متذبذب , بے ٹھکانہ

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afloat
Synonyms and related words:
aboard, accidental, accompanying, ado, adrift, afoot, all aboard, aloft, alternating, amorphous, astir, at flood, at sea, athwart the hawse, athwarthawse, awash, aweigh, bandied about, before the mast, bruited about, by sea, by water, capricious, cast-off, changeable, changeful, circumstantial, clear, current, deluged, desultory, deviable, dizzy, doing, drowned, eccentric, engulfed, erratic, eventuating, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, flooded, fluctuating, freakish, free, giddy, going about, going around, going on, happening, impetuous, impulsive, in circulation, in hand, in sail, in spate, in the air, in the news, in the wind, incidental, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, inflood, inundated, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, loose, made public, mazy, mercurial, moody, occasional, occurring, on, on board, on board ship, on deck, on foot, on shipboard, ongoing, overwhelmed, passing, prevailing, prevalent, rambling, reported, restless, resultant, rickety, rife, roving, rumored, scatterbrained, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, started, swamped, swept, taking place, talked about, topside, unaccountable, unanchored, unbound, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, under way, undisciplined, undone, unfastened, unfixed, unmoored, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unstuck, untied, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, washed, water-borne, water-washed, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whelmed, whimsical, whispered, whispered about, wishy-washy
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.

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