Floating and Imaginary

Floating

Floating adjective - Riding upon the surface of a body of liquid.

Imaginary and floating are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imaginary" instead an adjective "Floating".

Nearby Words: float, floated, floater, floatable, floaty

Imaginary

Imaginary adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.

Floating and imaginary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Floating" instead an adjective "Imaginary".

Nearby Words: imagination, imaginative

Both words in one sentence

  • Light Novel / Haiyore! Nyarko-san Mahiro, for example, somehow reads an imaginary number bubble floating next to Shantak-kun.
  • Convection Schmonvection In Inside Out, during their trip through Imagination Land, Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong cross a stream of (imaginary) lava by using floating pieces of furniture as stepping stones.
  • Hand Signals In particular, Aeryn indicates the sword-wielding D'Argo by chopping with an imaginary sword, and Crichton somehow manages to refer to the diminutive, froglike, hoverchair-riding Rygel by miming a small object floating up and down with his hands.
    Source: Hand Signals
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