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flabby
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective flabby has 1 sense
- flabby(s = adj.all) flaccid, soft - out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks" Derived forms noun flab1, noun flabbiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
flabby, a. [See Flap.].
Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flabby, adj. (flabbier, flabbiest)
1 (of flesh etc.) hanging down; limp; flaccid.
2 (of language or character) feeble.
1 (of flesh etc.) hanging down; limp; flaccid.
2 (of language or character) feeble.
Derivative
flabbily adv. flabbiness n.
Etymology
alt. of earlier flappy f. FLAP
THESAURUS
flabby
anemic, asthenic, baccate, baggy, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated, doughy, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, enervated, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flaccid, fleshy, flimsy, floppy, forceless, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, macerated, marrowless, masticated, mushy, nerveless, pasty, pendulous, pithless, pithy, pooped, powerless, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, relaxed, rubbery, sagging, sapless, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft, spineless, spiritless, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, strengthless, succulent, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly, yielding, ,ROGET THESAURUS
flabby
Softness
N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.
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