flocculent

1. 1.

   having a fluffy character or appearance

   Synonymswoollywooly

   Similarsoft

Questions about flocculent

What does flocculent mean?

flocculent means "having a fluffy character or appearance".

How many syllables are in flocculent?

flocculent has 3 syllables: floc-cu-lent. The stress falls on "floc".

What is another word for flocculent?

Close synonyms include woolly, wooly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flocculent a common word?

flocculent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.