floppy
/ˈflɒ.pi/
floppy adjective: limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
Adjective
floppy (comparative floppier, superlative floppiest)
- Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
- The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chaps in the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 3
- Synonyms:
- flopsy
Noun
floppy (plural floppies)
- A floppy disk.
- An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot.
- "Ja, our job is not to think or make decisions. We just here to slay floppies," remarked Koos.1997, Dick Gledhill, One Commando: Rhodesia's Last Years & the Guerilla^([sic]) War It Never Lost, page 55
- A comic book.
- We suggest that the impact of comic books is greater than it may first appear. Though individual sales of floppies may be low compared to, say, dollar grosses on motion pictures or may reach fewer viewers than a summer blockbuster […]2013, Nickie D. Phillips, Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, page 226
floppy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
floppy in Hindi
- फ़्लॉपी, फ्लापी, फ़्लापी
floppy in Tamil
- நெகிழ்வட்டு இயக்ககம்
floppy in Marathi
- (computing) a floppy disk
- फ्लॉपी phlŏpī
floppy in Urdu
- بھدا, کند, سست
More languagesFewer languages
- floppy in Bengali
- ফ্লপি phlopi, ঝুলা jhula
- floppy in Telugu
- ఫ్లాపీ, ఫ్లాపి
- floppy in Malayalam
- വളയുന്ന, വഴങ്ങുന്ന, കട്ടിയില്ലാത്ത, പൊട്ടുന്ന
- floppy in Kannada
- ಫ್ಲಾಪಿ, ಫ್ಲೋಪಿ
- floppy in Punjabi
- ਫਲਾਪੀ, ਫਲੌਪੀ, ਫ਼ਲੋਪੀ
- floppy in Gujarati
- ફ્લોપી, ફ્લાપી, ફ્લોપ્પી
- floppy in Odia
- ଫ୍ଲପି, ଫ୍ଲପି |
- floppy in Nepali
- फ्लपी, फ्लोपी, फ्लापी
Examples of floppy in a sentence
- Buying preformatted floppy disks means that you don't have to waste time formatting them.
- Floppy diskette drives have largely been replaced by more efficient media such as the USB memory stick.
- Will frequent reformattings harm a floppy disk?
Synonyms of floppy
Forms of floppy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | floppier |
| superlative | floppiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | floppies |
Origin of floppy
From flop + -y.
Words formed from floppy
- flip-floppy
- flippy floppy
- flippy-floppy
- floppily
- floppiness
- floppy baby syndrome
- floppy disk
- floppy disc
- floppy diskette
- floppy eyelid syndrome
- floppy infant syndrome
- floppy trunk syndrome
- floppy-wristed
- floptical
- intraoperative floppy iris syndrome
- stringy floppy
- superfloppy
- flippy
- flippy disc
- flippy disk
- flippy diskette
- floppy disc drive
- floppy disk drive
- floppy diskette drive
- floppy drive
- floppyful
- micro floppy
- micro-floppy
- microfloppy
- mini floppy
- mini-floppy
- minifloppy
Phrases with floppy
Words that rhyme with floppy
Questions about floppy
- What does floppy mean?
- Floppy means limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
- What is floppy in Hindi?
- Floppy in Hindi is फ़्लॉपी, फ्लापी, फ़्लापी. See Floppy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is floppy?
- Floppy can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce floppy?
- Floppy is pronounced /ˈflɒ.pi/.
Words near floppy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: floppy (page history and authors); floppy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floppy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); floppy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ঝুলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); floppy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floppy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); floppy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floppy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floppy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floppy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floppy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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