Buoyant

🔊 BOY-ant  ·  adjective

Buoyant describes anything with a knack for staying up — a life vest that pops right back to the surface, a raft that shrugs off waves, an economy that keeps climbing when you'd expect it to dip. Literally, it means able to float, or able to keep something else afloat. Figuratively, it means cheerful, resilient, and hard to keep down — the kind of good mood that rides out bad news instead of sinking under it.