flabby

Meaning

1. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
2. Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
3. (usually) overwrought.
4. Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.

Synonyms

flaccid

limp

soft

weak

feeble

slack

weak-willed

droopy

loose

drooping

characterless

fat

pulpy

infirm

loose-hanging

sagging

hanging

shaggy

spineless

squashy

weakness

become limp

become soft

flaggy

lose heart

not hard

loppy

disheveled

baggy

dishevelled

bloated

damp

delicate

disheveled

dishevelled

faint

flexible

lank

lax

mushy

nerveless

podgy

poor

pudgy

remiss

sallow

Translations

flasque

flaccido

flácido

mou

gevşek

slap

fofo

fláccido

schlaff

schlapp

mole

sfatto

flàccid

flabberig

moscio

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈflæb.i/

Etymology

From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”).