FLABBY (flabbier, flabbiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: flabbier    , flabbiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does flabby mean? 

• FLABBY (adjective)
  The adjective FLABBY has 1 sense:

1. out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance

  Familiarity information: FLABBY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLABBY (adjective)

Comparative: flabbier   
Superlative: flabbiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance

Synonyms:

flabby; flaccid; soft

Context example:

flaccid cheeks

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

Derivation:

flab (loose or flaccid body fat)

flabbiness (a flabby softness)

 Context examples 

But this kiss had tasted soapsuds, and the lips, he had noticed, were flabby.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Bronchiectasis, a condition in which damage to the airways causes them to widen and become flabby and scarred.

(Bronchial Disorders, NIH)

A life of toping and ease had left him flabby and gross.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am not fond of professions of humility,” I returned, “or professions of anything else.” “There now!” said Uriah, looking flabby and lead-coloured in the moonlight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Compared with White Fang, they were frail and flabby, and clutched life without any strength in their grip.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I think it was over the kitchen, because a warm greasy smell appeared to come up through the chinks in the floor, and there was a flabby perspiration on the walls.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the creative temperament—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)