Meaning of flabby | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen.”

“A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance⟳ at the place⟳ was enough to let⟳ you see⟳ the flabby devil was running that show⟳.”

“The strings of some violins when up to pitch are loose and flabby; some are very taut and hard.”

“Chassis of 1950s-1970s bikes are flabby tubular structures, often weak to the point⟳ of lacking straight-line stability!”

“A flabby wine might be described as a wine in which nothing stands out.”

“An extremely hot region will give⟳ you flabby wine.”

“As you revise⟳, focus⟳ on eliminating flabby expressions. This takes conscious effort. As one expert copyeditor observed, “Trim sentences, like⟳ trim bodies, usually require⟳ far more effort than flabby ones.”

“a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space”

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