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floatsome

floatsome is the alternative form of flotsam.

Meaning of flotsam

Noun

flotsam (countable and uncountable, plural flotsams)

  1. Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
    • WORF: Sensors beginning to pick up small objects, sir.
      PICARD: On screen.
      RIKER: Doesn't look natural.
      PICARD: Agreed. Enlarge and identify.
      WORF: It looks like debris from a space vessel of some kind.
      RIKER: It could be one of those ships that was orbiting Dytallix.
      LA FORGE: We are in close...1988 May 9, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Conspiracy (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC

Adjective

floatsome (comparative more floatsome, superlative most floatsome)

  1. (nonstandard, poetic, rare) Characterised or marked by floating; (by extension) temporary; transitory
    • The President that we have in King's place, is just a figurehead without power, the so called minister is floatsome and he (a few exceptions) waits for crumbs to fall from the party leadership. He has no permanency of tenure in government.2002, D.V. Gundappa, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    • Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore.2012, Garrison Clifford Gibson, Temporal Cross Currents

Forms of floatsome

comparativemore floatsome
superlativemost floatsome

Origin of floatsome

See flotsam.

From float + -some.

Questions about floatsome

What does floatsome mean?
Floatsome means characterised or marked by floating; (by extension) temporary; transitory.
What is floatsome the alternative form of?
Floatsome is the alternative form of flotsam.
What part of speech is floatsome?
Floatsome is an adjective.

Words near floatsome in the dictionary

  1. floats around
  2. floats at
  3. floats someone's boat
  4. floatsam
  5. floatsams
  6. floatsome
  7. floatstick
  8. floatsticks
  9. floatstone
  10. floatstones
  11. floaty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floatsome (page history and authors); flotsam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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