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free-floating

Syllabification: (free-float·ing)
Definition of free-floating

adjective

  • 1not attached to anything and able to move freely:free-floating aquatic plants
  • not assigned to a fixed or particular position, category, or level:free-floating exchange rates
  • (of a person) not committed to a particular cause or political party.
  • 2 Psychiatry (of anxiety) chronic and generalized, without an obvious cause.

Derivatives

free-float

verb

free-floater

noun

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