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cuddly

Syllables: cud·dly/ˈkʌdli/

cuddly adjective: suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled.

Adjective

cuddly (comparative cuddlier, superlative cuddliest)

  1. Suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled.
    • a cuddly teddy bear
  2. Fond of or prone to cuddling.
    • My girlfriend is very cuddly.

cuddly meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Persian

cuddly in Bengali

আলিঙ্গন করার উপযোগী

cuddly in Malayalam

huggable, cuddlesome, curvaceous
ഓമനിക്കാൻ തോന്നുന്ന, കെെയിലെടുത്തോമനിക്കാൻ തോന്നുന്ന, കെട്ടിപ്പിടിച്ചുമ്മവയ്ക്കാൻ തോന്നുന്ന, ലാളിക്കാൻ ആഗ്രഹം ജനിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, പുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, വടിവൊത്ത ശരീരമുള്ള

cuddly in Persian

Suitable for cuddling
بغل کردنی

Examples of cuddly in a sentence

  • The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster.
  • Freddy is a compulsive fondler: he needs the cuddly cat on his lap whenever his lover is out.
  • Such aides are apparently most helpful to shy-withdrawn, cuddly, motherable children.

All 20 example sentences with cuddly

Synonyms of cuddly

Forms of cuddly

comparativecuddlier
superlativecuddliest

Origin of cuddly

From cuddle + -y.

Words formed from cuddly

Phrases with cuddly

Words that rhyme with cuddly

Questions about cuddly

What does cuddly mean?
Cuddly means suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled.
What is cuddly in Bengali?
Cuddly in Bengali is আলিঙ্গন করার উপযোগী. See Cuddly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cuddly?
Cuddly is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cuddly?
Cuddly is pronounced /ˈkʌdli/.

Words near cuddly in the dictionary

  1. cuddliest
  2. cuddliness
  3. cuddling
  4. cuddling up
  5. cuddlings
  6. cuddly
  7. cuddly toy
  8. cuddly toys
  9. cuddly-wuddly
  10. cuddoo
  11. cuddoos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cuddly (page history and authors); cuddly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cuddly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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