flabby

UK /ˈflæb.i/ US /ˈflæb.i/
adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

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.

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.

2

Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.

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

An extremely hot region will give you flabby wine.

3

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.

4

Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.

a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space

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