Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "lint" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

laundromat pocket purse rug sock drawer

Derived Terms

boracic lint delint lint ball lint doctor lint roller lint-free lint-scraper linter lintfree linthead lintless linty

Context

computing

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cloth fabric fiber fibre material textile

Type Of (IsA)

debris fabric fiber

Related Terms

accumulate bale bellybutton clinging cloth cloth fluff coat cotton dressing dryer fibrous fine fluff fuzzy hair in bellybutton in dryer linen little little fluff material navel plant pocket raw scraping seed source code wound

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.