puffy
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
a bouffant skirt
Related & opposite
- large similar to
Sense 2 adjective
abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
hungry children with bloated stomachs
Related & opposite
- puffiness derivation
- intumescence derivation
- tumescence derivation
- tumidity derivation
- swell up derivation
- unhealthy similar to
Sense 3 adjective
blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
puffy off-shore winds
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | large |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | puffiness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intumescence |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tumescence |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tumidity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | swell up |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unhealthy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | gust |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | whiff |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | stormy |