puffy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: puff=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

puffy, a. 

•  Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

puffy, adj. (puffier, puffiest)
1 swollen, esp. of the face etc.
2 fat.
3 gusty.
4 short-winded; puffed out.

Derivative

puffily adv. puffiness n.

THESAURUS

puffy

adipose, aeolian, airish, airy, arrogant, beefy, big-bellied, blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blowzy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, bosomy, brawny, breezy, brisk, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilated, distended, drafty, dropsical, dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, favonian, flatulent, flawy, fleshy, fresh, full, gassy, gross, gusty, heavyset, hefty, hippy, important, imposing, incrassate, inflated, lusty, magisterial, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plethoric, plump, podgy, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffed up, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, self-important, squally, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffy, swelled, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, well-fed, windy

ROGET THESAURUS

puffy

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.