puffed

1. 1.

   gathered for protruding fullness

   “puff sleeves”

   Synonymspuff

   Similarfancy

Other forms of puffed

comparative

puffedder·

superlative

puffeddest·

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 puffed

What does puffed mean?

puffed means "gathered for protruding fullness".

How many syllables are in puffed?

puffed has 1 syllable: puffed. In IPA it is /ˈpʌft/.

What is another word for puffed?

Close synonyms include puff. 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 puffed a common word?

puffed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.