Buoyant
Light
Light adjective - Resembling air in lightness.
Usage example: the waves had an especially light foam at their crests because of the strong breeze
Buoyant is a synonym for light in characteristic topic. You can use "Buoyant" instead an adjective "Light", if it concerns topics such as insubstantial, floatable, not heavy.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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In the 1963 Disney film Son of Flubber, Professor Brainard comes up with an ingenious way to help the local high school football team win: he'll fill up a player's uniform with his new discovery, "flubber gas", to make him light and buoyant.
Source: Artistic License Sports -
Similarly, enlarging an object by increasing the open space inside it wouldn't add any weight, the subject would still have trouble breathing or digesting food, and any enlarged objects would become much more buoyant in air, possibly light enough to float away if they're made large enough.
Source: Film / Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
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