HOVERING Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in sailing

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verb

present participle of hover

as in floating

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air claimed that the UFO hovered a moment, then spun off into space at incredible speed

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Recent Examples of hovering

Adjective

This is surprising for something that is supposed to require less hovering, especially if the host is out of hearing range of the device's alerts. — New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2026 He-Man was now a jolly, quip-ready hero, whose best friends were scaredy-cat Cringer (a green-and-yellow tiger who transformed into Battle Cat), and an annoying, hovering magician called Orko. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 June 2026

Verb

Heat domes are essentially high-pressure systems hovering above a region that trap heat and humidity, experts say. — Alexa St. John, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Mortgage interest rates, for example, were hovering under 6% earlier this year before surging in the spring. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 1 July 2026 When both extend simultaneously – as the real bird does during hovering – the lift increase is greater than the sum of the two movements separately, but their pitching effects cancel each other out. — New Atlas, 2 July 2026 Attendance at the annual event has grown, Rodgers said, with attendance before the pandemic hovering around 3,000 but about 6,000 coming to the festival a year ago. — David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026 Markets have responded to the absence of immediate escalation, with WTI hovering around $70/bbl, but the strategic conditions that generated the crisis persist. — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 What distinguishes Union County from a standard addiction narrative is that Poulter and Centineo are flanked by nonactors, the overall effect hovering somewhere between fiction and nonfiction. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 1 July 2026 The president’s approval rating was hovering around 38% in a June survey taken by Quinnipiac University, with independents and Democrats driving much of that dissatisfaction. — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 30 June 2026 The arrest news also comes as the number of people entered into ICE detention facilities climbed in June to roughly 39,000 after hovering near 30,000 per month since February, according to information obtained by the Associated Press. — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hovering

Adjective

Opt for bigger hanging bulbs, discrete flickers, or even hanging sheaths.

— Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
To maintain the immersive illusion, Iñárritu eschewed traditional hanging fabric.

— Robert Lang, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026

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Verb

But photos showed that the blue sealant had started to peel away, leaving chunks floating on the surface, while algae growth turned the water green.

— Marco Gacina, NBC news, 2 July 2026
The character famously filmed herself floating in the pool and living her best Southern California sorority girl life.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026

Definition of floating

Verb

Royal Caribbean also paid homage to the original Legend of the Seas, which began sailing for the line in the 1990s until 2017, with a model of that ship on display in Schooner Bar.

— Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Two other small tankers exited the Persian Gulf by sailing closer to Iran.

— Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026