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iffy

/ˈɪfi/

iffy adjective: of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.

Adjective

iffy (comparative iffier, superlative iffiest)

  1. (slang) Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
    • He's selling new CD players for £20 each – that sounds a bit iffy to me.
    Synonyms:
    dodgy, dubious, fishy
  2. Uncertain or chancy; risky.
    • The weather is still iffy for Saturday's rocket launch.
    • That potato salad smells a bit iffy. Don't chance it — it's not worth salmonellosis.

iffy meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

iffy in Bengali

সন্দেহজনক প্রামাণিকতা, বৈধতা, আইনসংগততা বিশিষ্ট, অনিশ্চিত, ঝুঁকিপূর্ণ

iffy in Malayalam

low-grade, substandard, second-rate
വിശ്വസിക്കാൻ മടികാണിക്കേണ്ടതായ, താണനിലവാരമുള്ള, തരംതാണ, ഗുണംകുറഞ്ഞ, നിലവാരം കൂറഞ്ഞ, നിലവാരംതാണ
undecided, tentative, unsettled
ഉറപ്പില്ലാത്ത, താൽക്കാലികമായ, അനിശ്ചിതമായ, നിശ്ചയിക്കാത്ത, അന്തിമമല്ലാത്ത, അനിർണ്ണീതമായ

Examples of iffy in a sentence

  • “He’s underground, anyway, so reception would be iffy.”2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 416:
  • "Definitely something iffy, that's for sure.”2011, Terry Pratchett, Snuff, Doubleday, page 60:

Synonyms of iffy

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of iffy

Forms of iffy

comparativeiffier
superlativeiffiest

Origin of iffy

From if + -y.

Words formed from iffy

Words that rhyme with iffy

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Questions about iffy

What does iffy mean?
Iffy means of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
What is iffy in Bengali?
Iffy in Bengali is সন্দেহজনক প্রামাণিকতা, বৈধতা, আইনসংগততা বিশিষ্ট. See Iffy meaning in Bengali.
How do you use iffy in a sentence?
“He’s underground, anyway, so reception would be iffy.”
What part of speech is iffy?
Iffy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce iffy?
Iffy is pronounced /ˈɪfi/.

Words near iffy in the dictionary

  1. iffiest
  2. iffily
  3. iffiness
  4. Iffley
  5. Iffley College
  6. iffy
  7. IFG
  8. IFI
  9. IFID
  10. IFIDs
  11. Ifield

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: iffy (page history and authors); iffy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); iffy (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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