Antonyms for fluff
flʌffluff

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1. fluffnoun

   To make something fluffy.

   The cat fluffed its tail.

   Synonyms:
   all talk, cruft, ruffle, BS, hype

2. fluffnoun

   Anything inconsequential or superficial.

   That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.

   Synonyms:
   ruffle, cruft, BS, hype, all talk

3. fluffnoun

   To make a mistake in one’s lines

   Synonyms:
   cruft, ruffle, BS, hype, all talk

4. fluffnoun

   A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.

   Synonyms:
   hype, BS, ruffle, cruft, all talk

5. fluffnoun

   Synonyms:
   fuzz, puff

6. fluffnoun

   Synonyms:
   gaffe, lapse, fault, blooper, error, defect, mistake, blunder, boo-boo, stumble, faux pas, slip, thinko

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1. • Comb
   • Material
   • Triviality

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fluffnoun

   any light downy material

   Synonyms:
   frippery, bagatelle, frivolity

2. bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolitynoun

   something of little value or significance

   Synonyms:
   frivolousness, bar billiards, frivolity, buffoonery, bagatelle, harlequinade, frippery, japery, prank, clowning

3. fluffverb

   a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

   Synonyms:
   frippery, bagatelle, frivolity

4. botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck upverb

   make a mess of, destroy or ruin

   "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

   Synonyms:
   vitiate, stammer, mud, plunder, impair, drift, pamper, hot up, flub, suck, featherbed, mar, gasconade, squander, ruffle up, boast, heat up, vaunt, itch, screw up, ball up, mire, frustrate, corrupt, bluster, gas, deflower, spoil, muck up, rape, tease, grope, violate, bollocks, mollycoddle, bungle, bollocks up, fumble, muck, shove along, shove off, foil, stutter, blow, bollix, rumple, coddle, cosset, shoot a line, scotch, go bad, ruffle, baby, cross, louse up, fellate, float, botch up, bodge, mess up, brag, bobble, baffle, muff, be adrift, mess, mishandle, tout, foul up, swash, blunder, indulge, despoil, waste, go down on, stumble, blow out, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, bumble, falter, cocker, burn out, misconduct, mismanage

5. ruffle, fluffverb

   erect or fluff up

   "the bird ruffled its feathers"

   Synonyms:
   botch, prance, flick, shuffle, bungle, tease, tittup, muck up, mishandle, bumble, botch up, ruffle up, blow, ripple, screw up, cock, rumple, sashay, fumble, flub, ball up, ruffle, bollocks, strut, pleat, riffle, mess up, cockle, louse up, bollocks up, bollix, muff, swagger, undulate, foul up, mix, bobble, bollix up, spoil, bodge

6. tease, fluffverb

   ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

   Synonyms:
   botch, badger, bungle, tease, muck up, mishandle, bumble, botch up, tantalise, blow, screw up, rally, loosen, bug, fumble, flub, ball up, ruffle, bollocks, ride, bait, card, razz, spoil, muff, tantalize, tease apart, cod, louse up, mess up, taunt, beleaguer, foul up, rag, bobble, pester, bollix up, bollix, twit, bodge, bollocks up

How to use fluff in a sentence?

1. Charlotte Dell:

   It was fluff, but it made me think, `How could that translate to our residents with memory loss?' we're looking to see if we can set a positive tone for the day.

2. Joanna Hewitt:

   It has to be deeds, not words, what it’s easy to do is have some fluff - but what we want is hard numbers.

3. Harry Reid:

   But there is no alternative. What he talks about is basically fluff, there is no alternative. What is the alternative? To have us alone? Have the international community walk away? We have negotiated this in good faith. It hasn't taken months. It's taken years. Years. This is the diplomatic breakthrough that will go down in history as one of the biggest diplomatic moves in the history of the world.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world.

5. Ben Lewis:

   These stories offer comfort and escapism, it's something queer audiences haven't had a lot of. There has got to be room for fluff, for lack of a better term, and seeing queer representation in all genres, even where it hasn't been seen before.

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