puffy

puffy is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
2. adjective. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
3. adjective. blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts

   "puffy off-shore winds"

   "gusty winds"

   Synonyms: gusty

4. adjective. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

   "hungry children with bloated stomachs"

   "he had a grossly distended stomach"

   Synonyms: intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid

5. adjective. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing

   "a bouffant skirt"

   Synonyms: bouffant

Synonyms

gusty, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid, bouffant

Common word forms

puffier, puffily, puffiest

Words from these letters

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