Monday, July 16, 2012

When you let an inflated balloon loose before you tie it off, it flies around madly. You call that a __________ balloon?

"Loose" feels like a balloon that's floating away. This is one that shooting away wildly.

Labels: glossary

5:00 PM

9 Comments:

A sputtering balloon?

By  Riccardo, at 5:05 PM  

volitant or volitile?

By  tnt, at 9:36 PM  

Hmmm...good question. Below are some suggestions, but let us know when you find the word you're looking for:

floundering, struggling, "on the run," free, escaped, slithering, deflated, spent

By  Cory, at 12:18 AM  

I think you may need two words to illustrate the quality and state: A wild deflating balloon.

Or perhaps it's all about the verb that follows: A deflating balloon rockets/shoots through the air.

By  Trevor Mayes, at 4:09 AM  

I think I would go with renegade. Maybe stampeding or cavorting, depending on context. Gyrating?

By  Pythor, at 8:39 AM  

I think Pythor has it. Renegade balloon has the sense of flying recklessly and randomly, and it scans better than rogue balloon.

By  Alex Epstein, at 9:31 AM  

I dunno. Renegade balloon, on its own, makes me think of every helium balloon I see escaping into the sky.

By  Trevor Mayes, at 3:54 PM  

Careening?

By  JoshM, at 10:43 PM  

An unguided balloon?

By  David Peterson, at 11:50 PM  

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