snuggled

1. 1.

   drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection

   “saw a number of small houses nestled against the hillside”

   “like a baby snuggled in its mother's arms”

   Synonymsnestled

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Other forms of snuggled

comparative

snuggledder·

superlative

snuggleddest·

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 snuggled

What does snuggled mean?

snuggled means "drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection".

How many syllables are in snuggled?

snuggled has 2 syllables: snug-gled. The stress falls on "snug". In IPA it is /ˈsnʌɡəld/.

What is another word for snuggled?

Close synonyms include nestled. 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 snuggled a common word?

snuggled 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.