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adj. borne on the water; floating

adj. not secured in place

adj. of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate; "the supernatant fat was skimmed off"

adj. tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf"

afloat, buoyed up

adj. borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"

drifting, vagrant, vagabond, footloose, aimless

adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

gossamer, light, sheer, transparent, vaporous, airy, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, see-through

adj. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

road, traveling, travelling, touring, itinerant, peripatetic

adj. working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company"

free, loose, unfastened

adj. not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"

afloat, floating, buoyed up

adj. borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"

based

adj. having a base; "firmly based ice"

braced, buttressed

adj. held up by braces or buttresses

dangling, hanging, pendant, suspended, pendent

adj. supported from above; "a pendant bunch of grapes"

gimbaled

adj. supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips

suspended, in suspension

adj. (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; "suspended matter such as silt or mud..."; "dust particles suspended in the air"; "droplets in suspension in a gas"

underhung

adj. supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above; "underhung sliding doors"

underslung

adj. supported from above especially in a vehicle having springs attached to the axle from below

chiffon

adj. of pastry: having a light delicate texture achieved by whipping or adding whipped egg whites: "lemon chiffon pie"

diet, lite, low-cal

adj. having relatively few calories; "diet cola"; "light (or lite) beer"; "lite (or light) mayonnaise"; "a low-cal diet"

feathery, featherlike

adj. resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers; "feathery palm trees"

lightweight

adj. having no importance or influence; "a lightweight intellect"

low density

adj. having low relative density or specific gravity

short, scant

adj. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

weightless

adj. having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric"

based

adj. having a base; "firmly based ice"

braced, buttressed

adj. held up by braces or buttresses

dangling, hanging, pendant, suspended, pendent

adj. supported from above; "a pendant bunch of grapes"

supernatant, floating

adj. of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate; "the supernatant fat was skimmed off"

gimbaled

adj. supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips

suspended, in suspension

adj. (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; "suspended matter such as silt or mud..."; "dust particles suspended in the air"; "droplets in suspension in a gas"

underhung

adj. supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above; "underhung sliding doors"

underslung

adj. supported from above especially in a vehicle having springs attached to the axle from below

wandering, erratic, planetary

adj. having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

homeless, stateless

adj. without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"

migrant, migratory

adj. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"

wandering, roving, peregrine, mobile, nomadic

adj. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

peripatetic, wayfaring

adj. traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger"

vagabond, rootless

adj. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer"

unlocated

adj. lacking a particular location

aground

adj. on a shore or reef; "a ship aground offshore"; "a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it"

sunken, submerged

adj. under water; e.g. at the bottom of a body of water; "sunken treasure"; "a sunken ship"

heavy, weighty

adj. of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture"

settled

adj. established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"

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