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flabby
[flab-ee] 
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flabby
[flab-ee]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | baggy, fat |
| Synonyms: | drooping, enervated, flaccid, flexuous, floppy, gone to seed, hanging, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, out of condition, out of shape, pendulous, rusty, sagging, shapeless, slack, sloppy, soft, tender, toneless, unfit, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, lean, slim, taut, thin, tight |
| Main Entry: | chubby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slightly fat |
| Synonyms: | ample, bearish, big, butterball, buxom, chunky, fatty, flabby, fleshy, full-figured, hefty, husky, pleasingly plump, plump, plumpish, podgy, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, stout, tubby, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slim, thin |
| Main Entry: | droopy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limp |
| Synonyms: | bent, drooping, flabby, floppy, languid, languorous, lassitudinous, pendulous, sagging, saggy, slouchy, stooped, wilting |
| Antonyms: | full, inflated, raised |
| Main Entry: | feeble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not strong; ineffective |
| Synonyms: | aged, ailing, chicken*, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, out of gas, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sapless, sickly, slight, strengthless, tame, thin, unconvincing, vitiated, weak, weakened, weakly, wimpy, woozy, zero* |
| Antonyms: | able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flaccid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drooping |
| Synonyms: | debilitated, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, flabby, flimsy, inelastic, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, nerveless, quaggy, sapped, slack, soft, weak, weakened |
| Antonyms: | firm, taut, tight |
| Main Entry: | floppy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limp |
| Synonyms: | drooping, droopy, flabby, flaccid, loose, pendulous, relaxed, sagging, saggy, slack |
| Antonyms: | erect, stiff |
| Main Entry: | lame |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeble, weak |
| Synonyms: | faltering, faulty, flabby, flimsy, inadequate, ineffective, inefficient, insufficient, poor, thin, unconvincing, unpersuasive, unpleasing, unsatisfactory, unsuitable |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, efficient, satisfactory, strong |
| Main Entry: | limp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not stiff; weak |
| Synonyms: | bending, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, enervated, exhausted, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flexuous, flimsy, floppy, impressible, infirm, languid, languishing, lax, lethargic, limber, listless, loose, plastic, pliable, pliant, relaxed, slack, soft, spent, spiritless, supple, tired, unsubstantial, weakened, wearied, worn out, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff, straight, strong, unbending |
| Main Entry: | loose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not tight; unconstrained |
| Synonyms: | apart, asunder, at large, baggy, clear, detached, disconnected, easy, escaped, flabby, flaccid, floating, free, hanging, insecure, lax, liberated, limp, loosened, movable, not fitting, relaxed, released, separate, slack, slackened, sloppy, unattached, unbolted, unbound, unbuttoned, uncaged, unclasped, unconfined, unconnected, undone, unfastened, unfettered, unhinged, unhooked, unlatched, unlocked, unpinned, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsecured, unshackled, untied, wobbly |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | constrained, restricted, taut, tight |
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