Meaning

5 senses

  1. Inflated or swollen.

  2. Gathered up into rounded ridges.

    The dress had puffed sleeves.

    gathered for protruding fullness

  3. Expanded by the use of steam.

  4. Consisting of a puff; exhaled or produced in puffs.

    the puffed smoke of a cigar

  5. (colloquial)Synonym of puffed out (“panting from exercise”).

Origin

From puff + -ed. Shortened from puffed out.

From puff + -ed.

Shortened from puffed out.

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Forms

more puffed, most puffed
Comparativemore puffed Lesson
Superlativemost puffed Lesson

regular

Synonyms

14 synonyms
swollenB1bulgingdistendedtumidbolnbulledextuberantfarcednodoseprotuberantturgidpuffed out
Close in meaning
  • gathered for protruding fullness:puff

Word family

4 related words
Derivedpuffed grainpuffed ricepuffed uppuffed wheat

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pudgypueblopuffpufferfishpuffinpuffypug
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