Synonyms for floater
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : floh-ter |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfloʊ tər |
Top 10 synonyms for floater Other synonyms for the word floater
- absolution
- accommodation
- acquittal
- acquittance
- advance
- apparent
- Barmecidal
- barnstormer
- beachcomber
- beggar
- bindle
- bite
- black sheep
- blow in
- blue sky
- bum
- castaway
- charge
- chimerical
- commute
- dawdler
- deceitful
- deliverance
- delusive
- delusory
- deposit
- derelict
- displaced person
- down payment
- down-and-out
- drifter
- emancipation
- excursionist
- exemption
- exoneration
- expeditionist
- explorer
- extension
- fallacious
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fictional
- fictitious
- fictive
- float
- floater
- freedom
- freeing
- front money
- gad
- gadabout
- gallivanter
- globe-trotter
- globetrotter
- greenhorn
- grifter
- guest
- gutterpup
- guttersnipe
- gypsy
- haj
- hike
- hiker
- hitchhiker
- hobo
- homeless person
- ideal
- illusive
- imaginary
- immigrant
- incomer
- increase
- interloper
- intruder
- invader
- investment
- itinerant
- jet-setter
- journeyer
- junketer
- let-off
- liberation
- liberty
- lifeboat
- lifesaver
- loafer
- loan
- manumission
- meanderer
- migrant
- misleading
- mistaken
- mortgage
- navigator
- ne'er-do-well
- newcomer
- nomad
- noncitizen
- odd one out
- ostensible
- outcast
- outlander
- outsider
- panhandler
- passenger
- peddler
- pilgrim
- pipe dream
- prepayment
- rambler
- ranger
- refugee
- relief
- renegade
- retainer
- rise
- roamer
- rolling stone
- rover
- sailor
- score
- seafarer
- seeming
- semblant
- settler
- sham
- sightseer
- skidrow bum
- spring
- squatter
- stake
- stiff
- straggler
- stranger
- stray
- street person
- stroller
- stumblebum
- suppositious
- supposititious
- take
- time payment
- touch
- tourist
- tramp
- transient
- transmigrant
- traveler
- trekker
- tripper
- trouper
- truant
- trust
- turnout
- unreal
- untrue
- vagabond
- vagrant
- visionary
- visitor
- voyager
- walkout
- wanderer
- wayfarer
- weed
- whimsical
Définition of floater
Origin :- "dead body found in water," 1890, U.S. slang, agent noun from float (v.).
- As in illusory : adj deceptive
- As in loan : noun money given temporarily
- As in outsider : noun person who is foreign to something
- As in release : noun delivery; dispensation
- As in tramp : noun person who is poor, desperate
- As in traveler : noun person who journeys
- As in vagrant : noun person with no permanent home and often with no means of support
- As in wanderer : noun person who travels aimlessly
- As in bum : noun beggar
- As in advance : noun money given beforehand
- As in derelict : noun destitute or down-and-out person
- As in alien : noun foreign being
- Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
- The floater under him churned a little, but there was no noise.
- Extract from : « Unwise Child » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- At that instant her floater began to bob fiercely up and down.
- Extract from : « Dorothy's Triumph » by Evelyn Raymond
- This afternoon we passed a floater who had gone by us at New Madrid.
- Extract from : « The houseboat book » by William F. Waugh
- He was a financier and a floater of companies which generally paid.
- Extract from : « The Coast of Adventure » by Harold Bindloss
- We had to swim good and hard to catch up with our only hope, the floater.
- Extract from : « Friend Island » by Francis Stevens
- I parked my floater beside the house that had sheltered Kron as long as I had known him.
- Extract from : « To Choke an Ocean » by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
- Cameron wasn't a bad chap—he simply hadn't character enough to be bad—he was a floater!
- Extract from : « The Shield of Silence » by Harriet T. Comstock
- When the floater goes under, you will know that a fish is biting at the worm on the hook.
- Extract from : « Seven O'Clock Stories » by Robert Gordon Anderson
- I been along the waterfront long enough t' know that th' lad that picks up a floater gets a reward o' ten dollars from th' city.
- Extract from : « Captain Scraggs » by Peter B. Kyne
Antonyms for floater
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