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flabby

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flab=by

CIDE DICTIONARY

flabbya. [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.

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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