miff

Other forms of miff

plural

miffs·

past tense

miffed·

present participle

miffing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about miff

What does miff mean?

miff means "a state of irritation or annoyance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in miff?

miff has 1 syllable: miff.

What is another word for miff?

Close synonyms include huff, seeing red. 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 miff a common word?

miff 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.