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Difference Between Buoyant and Happy

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Buoyant

Able or tending to keep afloat or rise to the top of a liquid or gas.
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Happy

Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
They are happy to see me doing well
Melissa came in looking happy and excited
We're just happy that he's still alive
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Buoyant

Cheerful and optimistic
The conference ended with the party in a buoyant mood
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Happy

Fortunate and convenient
He had the happy knack of making people like him
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Buoyant

(of an economy, business, or market) involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity
Car sales were buoyant
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Happy

Inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random
They tended to be grenade-happy
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Buoyant

Having or marked by buoyancy
A buoyant balloon.
Buoyant spirits.
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Happy

Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy
A happy child.
The happiest day of my life.
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Buoyant

Lighthearted; gay
In a buoyant mood.
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Happy

Cheerful; willing
Happy to help.
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Buoyant

Having buoyancy; able to float.
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Happy

Characterized by good luck
A happy sequence of events.
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Buoyant

(figuratively) Lighthearted and lively.
I’m in a buoyant mood.
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Happy

Being especially well-adapted; felicitous
A happy turn of phrase.
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Buoyant

Involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity.
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Happy

Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination
Trigger-happy.
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Buoyant

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
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Happy

Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination
Money-happy.
Clothes-happy.
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Buoyant

Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
The water under me was buoyant.
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Happy

Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
Music makes me feel happy.
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Buoyant

Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.
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Happy

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
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Buoyant

Tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas;
Buoyant balloons
Buoyant balsawood boats
A floaty scarf
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Happy

Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
Yes, I am happy with the decision.
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Buoyant

Characterized by liveliness and light-heartedness;
Buoyant spirits
His quick wit and chirpy humor
Looking bright and well and chirpy
A perky little widow in her 70s
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Happy

(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
A happy coincidence
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Happy

(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
Slaphappy, trigger-happy
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Happy

Dexterous, ready, skilful.
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Happy

Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.
Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
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Happy

A happy event, thing, person, etc.
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Happy

Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
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Happy

Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
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Happy

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
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Happy

Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
The learned is happy Nature to explore,The fool is happy that he knows no more.
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Happy

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.
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Happy

Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune;
A happy smile
Spent many happy days on the beach
A happy marriage
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Happy

Experiencing pleasure or joy;
Happy you are here
Pleased with the good news
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Happy

Marked by good fortune;
A felicitous life
A happy outcome
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Happy

Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment;
Felt content with her lot
Quite happy to let things go on as they are
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Happy

Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
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Happy

Well expressed and to the point;
A happy turn of phrase
A few well-chosen words
A felicitous comment
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