Antonyms for flabby

Grammar : Adj

Spell : flab-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈflæb i

Definition of flabby

Origin : 1690s, variant of flappy, which is recorded in the sense of "softly fleshy" from 1590s; see flap. Related: Flabbily; flabbiness.

adj baggy, fat

Example sentences :

You might have kicked her, no matter where, she did not feel kicks for she had become too fat and flabby.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

Her eyes, in the centre of her flabby and grimacing face, were of celestial beauty.
Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola

If purchased ready boiled, try whether their tails are stiff, and pull up with a spring; otherwise that part will be flabby.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

He was carrying a heavy hunting-crop and his flabby face was livid.
Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine

His eyes that saw nothing were bent upon Gregory's pale, flabby face.
Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini

This holds a flabby skin in shape and lends strength to a frail one.
Extract from : « Taxidermy » by Leon Luther Pray

It is something that is probably better than the soft and flabby Golden Age.
Extract from : « They Twinkled Like Jewels » by Philip Jos Farmer

That flabby, burly man, happy and besotted, was his own father!
Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant

He felt weak and flabby and there was a strange chill at the pit of his stomach.
Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx

The spawning fish, flabby and useless, are killed in winter.
Extract from : « Angling Sketches » by Andrew Lang

Synonyms for flabby

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