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🌬️ Fresh and airy 😌 Relaxed and informal
unstuffy

unstuffy

4.3
Pleasantly fresh and easy to breathe in
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈstʌfi/
translation icon : ventilado
  • After her cold improved, her nose was finally unstuffy and she could breathe easily.

Examples

  • This room feels unstuffy and bright.

  • The newly renovated office felt unstuffy and comfortable, even on a hot day.

  • We chose the restaurant because its unstuffy atmosphere made dining there enjoyable.

  • The air in the garden is unstuffy and refreshing.

  • The room was bright and unstuffy, filled with fresh air from the open windows.

  • We chose a restaurant with an unstuffy atmosphere for our casual dinner.

  • The garden area was unstuffy, allowing guests to enjoy the breeze and sunshine.

Synonyms

airy
vsunstuffy
13 2.3

A place with a lot of fresh air and space

is fresher and focuses on pleasant lack of mustiness rather than size

Antonyms

stuffy
13 2.7

A room with little fresh air that feels uncomfortable to breathe in

How Stuffy

stifling
4 5.3
stuffy
13 2.7
unstuffy
4.3
fresh
314 1.0
airy
13 2.3

Surface Forms

unstuffy positive

Morphology

unstuffy = stuffy (transparent) = un + stuff + y

A straightforward negation formed by the productive prefix 'un-' applied to the adjective 'stuffy'.

Etymology

Unstuffy comes from the prefix un- 'not' plus stuffy, which means 'closed or lacking fresh air', so a room that is unstuffy feels fresh and easy to breathe in.