(a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared to my normal skinny jeans, however, they were billowy around the ankles, and I felt a little self-conscious about the tracksuit-style fabric.
Floaty
Definition:
(a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnostic techniques were: direct smear, Faust floaty concentration, Willis floating and Graham's tape.
(2) There is a large gang of drawly and giggling girls, now into their 12th hour of Friday’s partying, heading home in floaty maxi dresses.
(3) I suppose my wife and I are both floaty voters.” “The people who decide the election, I do think the local stuff is important to them and that’s how they will make up their minds,” says Cox.
(4) Valerie Grove, the journalist and writer, says that she was always "the one with the glamour and eyelashes and floaty kaftans" who "obviously had many chaps in pursuit and invariably got pounced on by male interviewees".
(5) ", Omega devotees wore floaty kaftans from India, and in the exhibits hall there was a touch of Camden Market meets the student union.
(6) Watford’s victory was built on firm foundations and a defence that first faced a floaty front three, then a lone striker and finally a two after Christian Benteke joined the fray for the final quarter-hour, and allowed not one of those players a notable chance.
(7) Every user input or important action needs to have an audio-visual response to feel immersive – it’s the difference between a floaty game that feels unfinished, and a game where the player feels empowered and the world feels alive.
(8) Most look like serious surfers but we do spot a few dedicated yogis in floaty pants and flip flops.
(9) Tiene hits it, a bit floaty and side-footy, and Eduardo is able to wave it past his far post.
(10) Win Butler described his band's new album as "a mash-up of Studio54 and Haitian voodoo": think Spandex-tight disco pants and grass skirts, Burt Reynolds' moustaches and tribal face paint, floaty white dresses, skeleton jewellery and enormous Afros, and Grace Jones's Bond character if she was in Live And Let Die instead of A View To Kill.
(11) If yours is floaties and a kickboard, that’s just fine.
(12) Indoor skydiving At the Airkix centres in Milton Keynes , Manchester and (newly opened) Basingstoke , lucky kids can find themselves blown up in the air by a powerful wind machine to create a floaty feeling similar to skydiving.
(13) They've been described as wafty, wavy, floaty, gauzy, wispy, glittering, sparkly, dreamy (and – for the thesaurus buffs – diaphanous, pellucid).