stuff

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    material,
  • (n) miscellaneous unspecified objects
    • the trunk was full of stuff
  • (n) informal terms for personal possessions
    • did you take all your clobber?
    clobber,
  • (n) senseless talk
    • don't give me that stuff
    hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense,
  • (n) unspecified qualities required to do or be something
    • the stuff of heros
    • you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine
  • (n) information in some unspecified form
    • it was stuff I had heard before
    • there's good stuff in that book
  • (n) a critically important or characteristic component
    • suspense is the very stuff of narrative

Verbs

Synonyms

material thrust shove squeeze choke up lug block clobber binge englut engorge glut gorge gormandise gormandize gourmandize ingurgitate overeat overgorge overindulge pig out scarf out satiate hooey poppycock stuff and nonsense farce

Antonyms

loosen up unstuff

Words of close approximity

stub stud stun
stuck study stump stung stunt stupa stupe
stuff and nonsense stuffed stuffed cabbage stuffed derma stuffed egg stuffed grape leaves stuffed mushroom stuffed peppers stuffed shirt stuffed tomato stuffer stuffily stuffiness stuffing stuffing box stuffing nut stuff shot stuffy