Antonyms for whiff
ʰwɪf, wɪfwhiff

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1. whiffnoun

   Synonyms:
   waft, sniff, puff

2. whiffnoun

   A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air

   Synonyms:
   waft, sniff, puff

3. whiffnoun

   An odour carried briefly through the air

   Synonyms:
   sniff, puff, waft

4. whiffnoun

   To strike out.

   Synonyms:
   puff, sniff, waft

5. whiffnoun

   A strike (from the batter’s perspective)

   Synonyms:
   puff, sniff, waft

6. whiffnoun

   The megrim, a fish with scientific name Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis

   Synonyms:
   puff, waft, sniff

Matched Categories

1. • Baseball
   • Blow
   • Lefteye Flounder
   • Smell
   • Smoke
   • Strike Out
   • Utter

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. puff, puff of air, whiffnoun

   a short light gust of air

   Synonyms:
   pull, pouffe, quilt, puff of air, drag, comfort, blow, comforter, hassock, powderpuff, ottoman, puff

2. whiffnoun

   a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil

   Synonyms:
   puff, puff of air

3. whiffverb

   a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike

   Synonyms:
   puff, puff of air

4. sniff, whiffverb

   perceive by inhaling through the nose

   "sniff the perfume"

   Synonyms:
   sniffle, sniff, puff

5. whiffverb

   drive or carry as if by a puff of air

   "The gust of air whiffed away the clouds"

   Synonyms:
   sniff, puff

6. whiffverb

   strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third

   Synonyms:
   sniff, puff

7. puff, whiffverb

   smoke and exhale strongly

   "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"

   Synonyms:
   blow up, drag, heave, huff, chuff, sniff, puff up, pant, puff out, gasp, draw, puff

8. whiffverb

   utter with a puff of air

   "whiff out a prayer"

   Synonyms:
   sniff, puff

How to use whiff in a sentence?

1. Chapman Cohen:

   Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

2. Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson:

   The institutional shareholders are starting to get a greater whiff of the responsibilities of being a shareholder. In the past, they didn’t care. Those days are long gone.

3. Margaret Duffy:

   There's a whiff of genuine concern and social responsibility that brands and advertisers are showing.

4. P. J. O'Rourke:

   There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

5. Marik Stern:

   A lot of us have developed a political identity different to our parents, they came here with a great antagonism to socialism and anything that has even a whiff of Soviet to it. They are very capitalist.

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