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afloat
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
1 afloat
Aimlessly drifting.
synoniemen: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected.
Roget 267:
sailing
etc.
v.;
volant†,
aerostatic†;
seafaring,
nautical,
maritime,
naval;
seagoing,
coasting;
afloat;
navigable;
aerial,
aeronautic;
grallatory†.
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Roget 673:
preparing
etc.
v.;
in preparation,
in course of preparation,
in agitation,
in embryo,
in hand,
in train;
afoot,
afloat;
on foot,
on the stocks,
on the anvil;
under consideration
etc.
(plan)
626;
brewing,
batching,
forthcoming,
brooding;
in store for,
in reserve.
precautionary,
provident;
preparative,
preparatory;
provisional,
inchoate,
under revision;
preliminary
etc.
(precedent)
62.
prepared
etc.
v.;
in readiness;
ready,
ready to one's band,
ready made,
ready cut and dried: made to one's hand,
handy,
on the table;
in gear;
in working order,
in working gear;
snug;
in practice.
ripe,
mature,
mellow;
pukka†;
practiced
etc.
(skilled)
698;
labored,
elaborate,
highly-wrought,
smelling of the lamp,
worked up.
in full feather,
in best bib and tucker;
in harness,
at harness;
in the saddle,
in arms,
in battle array,
in war paint;
up in arms;
armed at all points,
armed to the teeth,
armed cap a pie;
sword in hand;
booted and spurred.
in utrumque paratus [Lat.],
semper paratus [Lat.];
on the alert
etc.
(vigilant)
459;
at one's post.
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Roget 532:
many-tongued;
rumored;
publicly rumored,
currently rumored,
currently reported;
rife,
current,
floating,
afloat,
going about,
in circulation,
in every one's mouth,
all over the town.
in progress;
live;
on the spot;
in person.
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Roget 151:
happening
etc.
v.;
going on,
doing,
current;
in the wind,
in the air,
afloat;
on foot,
afoot,
on the tapis†;
at issue,
in question;
incidental.
eventful,
stirring,
bustling,
full of incident;
memorable,
momentous,
signal.
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Roget 149:
changeable,
changeful;
changing
etc.
140;
mutable,
variable,
checkered,
ever changing;
protean,
proteiform†;
versatile.
unstaid†,
inconstant;
unsteady,
unstable,
unfixed,
unsettled;
fluctuating
etc.
v.;
restless;
agitated
etc.
315;
erratic,
fickle;
irresolute
etc.
605;
capricious
etc.
608;
touch and go;
inconsonant,
fitful,
spasmodic;
vibratory;
vagrant,
wayward;
desultory;
afloat;
alternating;
alterable,
plastic,
mobile;
transient
etc.
111;
wavering.
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Roget 1:
existing
etc.
v.;
existent,
under the sun;
in existence
etc.
n.;
extant;
afloat,
afoot,
on foot,
current,
prevalent;
undestroyed.
real,
actual,
positive,
absolute;
true
etc.
494;
substantial,
substantive;
self-existing,
self-existent;
essential.
well-founded,
well-grounded;
unideal†,
unimagined;
not potential
etc.
2;
authentic.
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2 afloat
Borne on the water; floating.
3 afloat
bijwoord
Roget 273:
afloat,
aboard;
on board,
on ship board;
hard a lee,
hard a port,
hard a starboard,
hard a weather.
Roget 341:
at sea,
on sea;
afloat.
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: aboard, accidental, accompanying, ado, adrift, afoot, all aboard, aloft, alternating, amorphous, astir, at flood, at sea, athwart the hawse, athwarthawse, awash, aweigh, bandied about, before the mast, bruited about, by sea, by water, capricious, cast-off, changeable, changeful, circumstantial, clear, current, deluged, desultory, deviable, dizzy, doing, drowned, eccentric, engulfed, erratic, eventuating, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, flooded, fluctuating, freakish, free, giddy, going about, going around, going on, happening, impetuous, impulsive, in circulation, in hand, in sail, in spate, in the air, in the news, in the wind, incidental, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, inflood, inundated, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, loose, made public, mazy, mercurial, moody, occasional, occurring, on, on board, on board ship, on deck, on foot, on shipboard, ongoing, overwhelmed, passing, prevailing, prevalent, rambling, reported, restless, resultant, rickety, rife, roving, rumored, scatterbrained, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, started, swamped, swept, taking place, talked about, topside, unaccountable, unanchored, unbound, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, under way, undisciplined, undone, unfastened, unfixed, unmoored, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unstuck, untied, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, washed, water-borne, water-washed, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whelmed, whimsical, whispered, whispered about, wishy-washy ... meer laten zien.
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