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free-floating

free-floating adjective: floating in water without attachment to anything and with no means of propulsion.

Adjective

free-floating (not comparable)

  1. Floating in water without attachment to anything and with no means of propulsion.
  2. Being detached from concrete reality or specific referents.

Phrases with free-floating

Questions about free-floating

What does free-floating mean?
Free-floating means floating in water without attachment to anything and with no means of propulsion.
What part of speech is free-floating?
Free-floating is an adjective.

Words near free-floating in the dictionary

  1. free-feeds
  2. free-fell
  3. free-fire
  4. free-flew
  5. free-flies
  6. free-floating
  7. free-floating planet
  8. free-floating planets
  9. free-flowing
  10. free-flown
  11. free-fly

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