Airless vs Stuffy - What's the difference?
airless | stuffy |
Lacking or being without air.
Lacking air circulation.
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(medical) Suffering from asphyxia.
(figurative) Stifling; dead; lacking vitality or excitement.
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Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
Angry and obstinate; sulky.
Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
(US, Canada, colloquial, often, childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy.
As adjectives the difference between airless and stuffy
is that airless is lacking or being without air while stuffy is poorly ventilated; partially plugged.As a noun stuffy is
a stuffed animal or other plush toy.airless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
- The worst that can—and has—been said about Memento is that it’s an airless gimmick, visually undistinguished, and not even all that sophisticated when the puzzle pieces are finally put together.
Derived terms
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English
Adjective
(er)- I can't smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
- Let's go outside – it's getting stuffy in here.
- The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.