1.Definition: a critically important or characteristic component

"Suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

Category: General

2.Definition: informal terms for personal possessions

Related Noun(s):clobber

Category: General

3.Definition: information in some unspecified form

"It was stuff I had heard before", "There's good stuff in that book"

Category: General

4.Definition: miscellaneous unspecified objects

"The trunk was full of stuff"

Category: Objects

5.Definition: senseless talk

"Don't give me that stuff"

Related Noun(s):hooey, poppycock

Category: General

6.Definition: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

"Coal is a hard black material", "Wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

Related Noun(s):material

Category: General

7.Definition: unspecified qualities required to do or be something

"The stuff of heros", "You don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"

Category: General