Definition of FLABBY

flabby

Adjective Satellite

  • out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
    • "flabby around the middle"

Adj

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

Adjective

  • Soft, loose, and lacking firmness; not toned.

Examples

  • His Words With Friends score was looking a bit FLABBY until he found a bingo.

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

flaccid, soft, flat

Antonyms

muscled, taut

Scrabble Score: 16

flabby: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
flabby: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flabby: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

flabby: valid Words With Friends Word