Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Puffiness   Listen
Puffiness

noun
1.
An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement.  Synonyms: lump, swelling.
2.
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.  Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Puffiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... butter, no milk, his food mostly uncooked, as we ourselves believe in. If Dr Valentine Knaggs would give us his opinion on this I should be very grateful. The boy is healthy, but I notice a slight puffiness below the eyes of late in the morning. Also his temper does not improve as he gets older. Will he be having too much proteid (nuts) for one of his years, or is the temper natural as a result of bad discipline. His ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various


Words linked to "Puffiness" :   haematocoele, puffy, intumescence, symptom, iridoncus, bloat, inflation, dropsy, tumidness, pomposity, inelegance, hydrops, oedema, haematocele, hematocoele, intumescency, edema, enlargement, oscheocele, oscheocoele, hematocele, spermatocele, tumidity, bunion, lymphogranuloma


Copyright © 2024 Diccionario ingles.com