| Noun | 1. | floating - the act of someone who floats on the water | |
| Adj. | 1. | floating - continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"unsettled - not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle" | |
| 2. | floating - inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"mobile - moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" | |
| 3. | floating - (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position; "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum"; "a floating kidney"unfixed - not firmly placed or set or fastened | |
| 4. | floating - not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters" | |
| 5. | floating - borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"afloat - borne on the water; floating | |