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Ebullient vs Buoyant - What's the difference?

ebullient | buoyant |

As adjectives the difference between ebullient and buoyant

is that ebullient is enthusiastic; high-spirited while buoyant is having buoyancy; able to float.

ebullient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • enthusiastic; high-spirited.
  • * Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons. - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 233)
  • (of a liquid) boiling or agitated as if boiling

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    buoyant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having buoyancy; able to float
  • lighthearted and lively
    • I’m in a buoyant mood.

    Related terms

    * buoyancy * buoy * buoy up * buoying

    See also

    * Archimedes' principle