flabby

Meaning

Adjective

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• flat

Opposite words

• muscled, taut

Origin

• From a variant of flappy, from flap. Compare English dialectal flapsy, Middle Dutch flabbe, Middle Low German flabbe, Danish flab, Swedish flabb, fläff, German Flabbe.