Buoyant vs. Bouncy — What's the Difference?

Able or tending to keep afloat or rise to the top of a liquid or gas.

Tending to bounce.

Cheerful and optimistic

Springy; elastic

(of an economy, business, or market) involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity

Lively; energetic

Having or marked by buoyancy

Easily bounced.

Lighthearted; gay

Lively, exuberant, energetic.

Having buoyancy; able to float.

Readily regaining its original shape or position after stretching, compression, or other deformation; as, clean bouncy hair.

(figuratively) Lighthearted and lively.

Showing a joyous enthusiasm. Opposite of dull.

Involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity.

Rebounds readily;

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.

Marked by lively action;

Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.

Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.

Tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas;

Characterized by liveliness and light-heartedness;