Word Type

Noun

Verb

Intj

Adjective

The word "ruff" can be used as noun, verb, intj and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

smooth

Derived Terms

French ruff crossruff crossruff overruff ruffable ruffless rufflike sea-ruff underruff unruffable

Etymologically Related To

rough

Inflected/Variant Forms

rough ruffe

Context

card game engineering falconry military music ornithology zoology

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

collar external body part go move neckband play sandpiper turn

Type Of (IsA)

bird sandpiper turn

Part Of

bridge

Related Terms

adorn animal arf australia bark bird carnivorous circular collar distinctive distinctively dog dog bark dwell ear elizabethan endwise england establish eurasia exhibition fabric falcon fancy fancy collar female fish follow suit freshwater garment genus gregarious haughtiness hawk instance jacobean loud male mating season medium sized motion opportunity philomachus pugnax pope porgy predecessor pride procedure reeve sea bream small sparidae speak species spiny temperate tommy ruff tropical trump card tuft tumultuous wading bird whist woof

Synonym Network

choker frill roughy trump woof

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