What are some opposite words for stuff?
Antonyms for stuff
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This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term stuff.
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material, stuffnoun
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
"coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
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hooey, clobber, poppycock, cloth, fabric, material, stuff and nonsense, textilestuffnoun
miscellaneous unspecified objects
"the trunk was full of stuff"
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clobber, poppycock, hooey, stuff and nonsense, materialstuff, clobbernoun
informal terms for personal possessions
"did you take all your clobber?"
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clobber, poppycock, hooey, stuff and nonsense, materialstuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycocknoun
senseless talk
"don't give me that stuff"
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clobber, poppycock, hooey, stuff and nonsense, materialstuffnoun
unspecified qualities required to do or be something
"the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
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clobber, poppycock, hooey, stuff and nonsense, materialstuffnoun
information in some unspecified form
"it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
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clobber, poppycock, hooey, stuff and nonsense, materialstuffverb
a critically important or characteristic component
"suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
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clobber, poppycock, hooey, stuff and nonsense, materialstuffverb
cram into a cavity
"The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
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overeat, glut, englut, pig out, thrust, scarf out, gourmandize, lug, farce, satiate, block, overgorge, shove, squeeze, overindulge, engorge, binge, gorge, gormandize, ingurgitate, gormandise, choke upthrust, stuff, shove, squeezeverb
press or force
"Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
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extort, pressure, crush, scarf out, lug, rack, twinge, constrict, overindulge, binge, gouge, tweet, embrace, thrust, gormandize, shove, gormandise, throw, glut, compress, engorge, gourmandize, pig out, ingurgitate, coerce, block, overeat, contract, hale, press, lunge, jostle, hurtle, squeeze, squash, twitch, bosom, pinch, wring, push up, mash, englut, wedge, hurl, hug, force, choke up, pierce, squelch, compact, farce, overgorge, satiate, gorgestuff, lug, choke up, blockverb
obstruct
"My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
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tug, block up, scarf out, lug, halt, obturate, overindulge, binge, jam, block off, close up, thrust, blank out, freeze, gormandize, obstruct, deflect, gormandise, embarrass, glut, draw a blank, engorge, gourmandize, hinder, pig out, ingurgitate, impede, block, overeat, forget, tote, immobilize, stop, stymy, squeeze, blockade, immobilise, bar, occlude, barricade, satiate, englut, shove, parry, kibosh, choke up, stymie, farce, overgorge, gorgegorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf outverb
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
"She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
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lug, gorge, oversupply, choke up, glut, replete, englut, pig out, thrust, scarf out, gourmandize, overeat, farce, satiate, block, overgorge, flood, shove, fill, squeeze, overindulge, engorge, gormandize, sate, ingurgitate, binge, gormandisestuffverb
treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
"stuff a bearskin"
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overeat, glut, englut, pig out, thrust, scarf out, gourmandize, lug, farce, satiate, block, overgorge, shove, squeeze, overindulge, engorge, binge, gorge, gormandize, ingurgitate, gormandise, choke upstuffverb
fill tightly with a material
"stuff a pillow with feathers"
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overeat, glut, englut, pig out, thrust, scarf out, gourmandize, lug, farce, satiate, block, overgorge, shove, squeeze, overindulge, engorge, binge, gorge, gormandize, ingurgitate, gormandise, choke upfarce, stuffverb
fill with a stuffing while cooking
"Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
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gorge, glut, englut, pig out, thrust, scarf out, gourmandize, lug, farce, satiate, block, overgorge, shove, squeeze, overindulge, engorge, binge, gormandize, ingurgitate, gormandise, overeat, choke up
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How to use stuff in a sentence?
I just feel like you dont want to hurt anybodys feelings, in comedy, you do stuff six or seven years ago that wouldnt be okay now, and probably for good reason. ... You have to kind of grow, so I think its a good thing. Im never interested in upsetting anybody.
Insurance companies don’t have that stuff wrong. They get it right from the state, i said, ‘Before I make a fool of myself, let me look back just to makesure.’.
They are good kids, they go to church on their own... they really care about other people, when you take all of the basketball stuff away, we want all of our girls to be good people, and we want them to build their own successes.
I think after this it will be more; I really do, people just don't have the money right now. They don't have the money to pay for stuff like this.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon:
In the rough and tumble of elections, you get stuff said, questions asked.
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