fluffy
Americanadjective
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of, resembling, or covered with fluff.
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light or airy.
a fluffy cake.
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having little or no intellectual weight; superficial or frivolous.
fluffy thinking.
adjective
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of, resembling, or covered with fluff
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soft and light
fluffy hair
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sentimental or overromantic; not very intelligent
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characterized by nonviolent methods
fluffy environmentalist protestors
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Other Word Forms
- fluffily adverb
- fluffiness noun
- unfluffy adjective
Etymology
Origin of fluffy
Example Sentences
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That changed with his dramatic return and hero's welcome in December, accompanied by his fluffy ginger cat, Jebu, images of which have gone viral on Bangladeshi social media.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
He was trapped at the bottom under about a meter of dense avalanche debris — which starts out fluffy but can quickly harden to the consistency of concrete.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
In Germany, the berliner was a round, jam-filled ball with no hole — fluffy, sweet, capped in sugar.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
First, the bad news: “Snowcrete” is the treacherous ice that results when rain, imprecise or nonexistent plowing and insufficient salting turn what was once fluffy white snow into a dense and dirty scourge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Ella pointed at a circle of fluffy cushions.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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