Crossword-Solution: AFLOAT 6 letters, 236 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Afloat adv. & a. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
Afloat adv. & a. Moving; passing from place to place; in general
circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
Afloat adv. & a. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift;
as, our affairs are all afloat.

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We have 236 clues for the answer “AFLOAT”

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Above water 1 answer
Bobbing, say 1 answer
Borne on the water 1 answer
Circulating, as rumors 1 answer
Displaying buoyancy 1 answer
Doing fine financially 1 answer
Drifting about 1 answer
Drifting asea 1 answer
Drifting at sea 1 answer
Exhibiting buoyancy 1 answer
Financially self-sufficient 1 answer
Financially solid 1 answer
Free of debt 1 answer
Free of financial troubles 1 answer
Free of trouble or debt 1 answer
How a life preserver should keep you 1 answer
In good financial shape 1 answer
In the black, metaphorically 1 answer
Like a bobbing cork 1 answer
Like a raft 1 answer
Like ice cubes in water 1 answer
Like most rafts 1 answer
Like some tubers 1 answer
Like the Titanic, on April 14th, 1912 1 answer
Not going down 1 answer
Not going under 1 answer
Not sinking 1 answer
Not submerged 1 answer
Not yet bankrupt 1 answer
Not yet sunk 1 answer
On board a ship or boat 1 answer
On shipboard. 1 answer
On the sea 1 answer
On the surface, say 1 answer
On the water's surface 1 answer
Opposite of sinking 1 answer
Out of debt, so to speak 1 answer
Riding on the waves 1 answer
Sailing the waters 1 answer
Showing buoyancy 1 answer
Sitting on the water 1 answer
Solvent, so to speak 1 answer
Still O.K. financially 1 answer
Still in business, so to speak 1 answer
Still not sunk 1 answer
Still unsunk 1 answer
Where businesses try to stay 1 answer
Aboard ship. 2 answers
Bobbing on the waves 2 answers
Bouyant 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AFLOAT (5)

The country is richly endowed with natural resources - petroleum, hydropower, fish, forests, and minerals - and is highly dependent on its oil sector to keep its economy afloat.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Strange stories were afloat of how he and those aristos whom he rescued became suddenly invisible as they reached the barricades and escaped out of the gates by sheer supernatural agency.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Yes, and they take loaves of bread and put quicksilver in ’em and set ’em afloat, and wherever there’s anybody that’s drownded, they’ll float right there and stop.” “Yes, I’ve heard about that,” said Joe.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Some stopped to gaze, and perhaps, carried a pleasant recollection of the bubbles onward as far as the street-corner; some looked angrily upward, as if poor Clifford wronged them by setting an image of beauty afloat so near their dusty pathway.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
But no sooner were they afloat than a savage growling from one of the apes directly ahead of him in the dugout attracted his attention to a shivering and cowering figure that trembled between him and the great anthropoid.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with AFLOAT (3)

She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out — your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it…
Gregory David Roberts Shantaram
I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.
Amanda Grace But I Love Him
But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself bef…
Soren Kierkegaard
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 126 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).