All 3 Uses of
buoyant
in
Gone with the Wind
- Then she had been pale and sad but there had been a buoyancy about her.†
Chpt 3.29 *
- Now that buoyancy had gone, as if the surrender had taken all hope from her.†
Chpt 3.29
- There was something about the prospect of a struggle of wits with a man—with any man—that put her on her mettle and, after months of battling against countless discouragements, the knowledge that she was at last facing a definite adversary, one whom she might unhorse by her own efforts, gave her a buoyant sensation.†
Chpt 4.34 *
Definitions:
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(buoyant as in: buoyant personality) characterized by cheerfulness and optimism; or a tendency to maintain or quickly recover cheerfulness and optimism after setbacks
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(buoyant as in: buoyant force or market) tending to float or rise; or making other things float