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fluffy
CIDE DICTIONARY
fluffy, a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
"The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fluffy, adj. (fluffier, fluffiest)
1 of or like fluff.
2 covered in fluff; downy.
1 of or like fluff.
2 covered in fluff; downy.
Derivative
fluffily adv. fluffiness n.
THESAURUS
fluffy
airy, attenuate, attenuated, birdbrained, birdwitted, bubbly, dainty, delicate, downy, ethereal, featherbrained, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, fleecy, flighty, flossy, foamy, frivolous, frothy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, hirsute, imponderous, insubstantial, lanate, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, lightweight, mousse, nappy, peachy, pinnate, pubescent, puffy, refined, satin, satiny, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, silky, smooth, soft, souffle, superficial, thin, thin-spun, trivial, unheavy, unimportant, unprofound, velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, whipped up, wiredrawn, wispy, woolly, yeastyROGET THESAURUS
fluffy
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.For further exploring for "fluffy" in Webster Dictionary Online