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Jocund vs Buoyant - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between jocund and buoyant

is that jocund is jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness while buoyant is having buoyancy; able to float.

jocund

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
  • * (rfdate), Thomas Shelton, translator, Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes
    • There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund , that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.
  • * (rfdate), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    • Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
  • * (rfdate) William Wordsworth
    • a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company

    Derived terms

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    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