Synonyms of wafted

wafted

verb

past tense of waft

as in hovered

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air

a feather wafted past us and settled on the grass

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hovered
• floated
• sailed
• drifted
• swam
• glided
• rode
• poised
• bobbed
• hung
• suspended
• dangled
• buoyed
• rafted
• ballooned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• settled
• sank
• plunged
• dived
• lunged
• dipped
• submerged
• immersed
• submersed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wafted

Tendrils of smoke still wafted over the charred vessel by midday Thursday. — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

Tendrils of smoke still wafted over the charred vessel by midday. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

Just then, the strains of a familiar song wafted across the store, and Valencia and Zegarra followed it, past a Lightning McQueen replica, to a tiny area where a half-dozen child-size chairs were arranged before a screen. — Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Meanwhile top women’s seed Aryna Sabalenka complained when the smell of marijuana wafted from crowd to court. — Greg Cote september 6, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026

Rarely has a film so resourcefully evoked the transportive but decidedly analog thrill of reading; rarely has the warmly musty smell of research libraries and archives somehow wafted with such sense-memory precision off a cinema screen. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

That kind of tall tale spirit wafted through the air the entire night, says Miller. — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2026

Large white feathers wafted in the breeze—Paris, after all, drove the 19th-century ostrich feather craze that swept the fashion world. — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

The plinking of a piano wafted in from the Music Hall by the water’s edge. — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2026