fluff
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any light downy material
Types & categories
- material hypernym
Related & opposite
- downy derivation
Sense 2 verb
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
Types & categories
- miscarry hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
something of little value or significance
Types & categories
- trivia hypernym
Sense 4 verb
erect or fluff up
the bird ruffled its feathers
Types & categories
- loosen hypernym
Related & opposite
- fluff up also see
Sense 5 noun
a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
Types & categories
- blunder hypernym
Related & opposite
- bobble derivation
Sense 6 verb
ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
Types & categories
- comb out hypernym
Related & opposite
- comb-out derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | downy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | material |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blunder |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ballup |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fluff |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | screwup |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | spoil |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fuckup |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | miscarry |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | trivia |
| 4 | also see | Related & opposite | fluff up |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | loosen |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bobble |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | blunder |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | comb-out |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | comb out |