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Airless vs Stuffy - What's the difference?

airless | stuffy |

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)
  • Lacking or being without air.
  • Lacking air circulation.
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  • With air that is stale.
  • (medical) Suffering from asphyxia.
  • (figurative) Stifling; dead; lacking vitality or excitement.
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  • 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

    * airlessness

    Anagrams

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    stuffy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
  • I can't smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
    Let's go outside – it's getting stuffy in here.
  • Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
  • Angry and obstinate; sulky.
  • Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
  • The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.

    Noun

    (stuffies)
  • (US, Canada, colloquial, often, childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy.
  • Derived terms

    * stuffily * stuffiness