flabbiest
flabbiest is the superlative form of flabby.
Meaning of flabby
Adjective
flabby (comparative flabbier, superlative flabbiest)
- Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
- 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.1867 December 28, John Wades, “External Manual Pressure during Labour”, in The British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 601
- Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
- A flabby wine might be described as a wine in which nothing stands out.1996, Emile Peynaud, Jacques Blouin, The Taste of Wine: The Art Science of Wine Appreciation, →ISBN, page 229
- Synonyms:
- flat
- overwrought.
- 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.2014, Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, Business Communication: Process and Product, →ISBN, page 178
- Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
Questions about flabbiest
- What is flabbiest the superlative form of?
- Flabbiest is the superlative form of flabby.
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