All 4 Uses of
buoyant
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Yet it was a buoyant life.†
Chpt 12buoyant = cheerful and optimistic; or a tendency to maintain or quickly recover cheerfulness and optimism after setbacks
- Guy Pollock wrote to a cousin, a temporary army captain, a confiding and buoyant lad who took Carol to tea-dances, and laughed, as she had always wanted some one to laugh, about nothing in particular.†
Chpt 37 *
- She did not, in recovering something of her buoyancy, forget her determination to begin the liberalizing of Gopher Prairie by the easy and agreeable propaganda of teaching Kennicott to enjoy reading poetry in the lamplight.†
Chpt 10 *
- I'd get tired of his confounded buoyancy.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(buoyant as in: buoyant force or market) tending to float or rise; or making other things float
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(2)
(buoyant as in: buoyant personality) characterized by cheerfulness and optimism; or a tendency to maintain or quickly recover cheerfulness and optimism after setbacks