flabile
flabile adjective: liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
Adjective
flabile (comparative more flabile, superlative most flabile)
- Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
- In the then earlyer times , the comon country musick was ordinarily of the flabile kind1728, Roger North, Hilda Andrews, The Musicall Gramarian, page 6
- My spirits a drear pensiveness depress'd, And deep-drawn sighs incessant heav'd my breast. Alas ! in sick'ning semblance did I trace The gloomy fall of our own flabile race.1804 February, W.K., “To the Editor”, in The European Magazine and London Review, volume 45, page 86
Examples of flabile in a sentence
- There is not even anything that is either humid or breathly (flabile), or igneous.1889, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Death No Bane: A New Translation, page 51:
- They are a calm, flaccid, flabile, placid lot who pat themselves on the back on account of their marvelous poise of character, fat bank account and U.S. bonds.1910, Albert G. Detch, “Much Hysteria Abroad in the Land”, in The Bridgemen's Magazine, volume 10, page 835:
Forms of flabile
| comparative | more flabile |
|---|---|
| superlative | most flabile |
Origin of flabile
Borrowed from Latin flabilis.
Questions about flabile
- What does flabile mean?
- Flabile means liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
- How do you use flabile in a sentence?
- There is not even anything that is either humid or breathly (flabile), or igneous.
- What part of speech is flabile?
- Flabile is an adjective.
Words near flabile in the dictionary
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