English-Thai Dictionary

flabby

ADJ หย่อนยาน (เนื้อ  เหี่ยว  ไม่ เต่งตึง  baggy loose limp firm solid yon-yan

 

flabby

ADJ ไม่มี เรี่ยวแรง  ปวกเปียก  ไม่ มีพลัง  weak feeble sturdy strong mai-me-reol-rang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLABBY

a. Soft; yielding to the touch and easily moved or shaken; easily bent; hanging loose by its own weight; as flabby flesh.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FLABBY

Flab "by, a. Etym: [See Flap. ]

 

Defn: Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

flabby

flab by |ˈflabē ˈflæbi | ▶adjective ( flabbier, flabbiest ) (of a part of a person's body ) soft, loose, and fleshy: this exercise helps to flatten a flabby stomach. • (of a person ) having soft loose flesh. • not tightly controlled, powerful, or effective: the quartet playing was uncommitted and flabby. DERIVATIVES flab bi ly |ˈflabəlē |adverb, flab bi ness |ˈflabēnis |noun ORIGIN late 17th cent.: alteration of earlier flappy.

 

Oxford Dictionary

flabby

flabby |ˈflabi | ▶adjective ( flabbier, flabbiest ) (of a part of a person's body ) soft, loose, and fleshy: this exercise helps to flatten a flabby stomach. • having soft, loose flesh; overweight. • lacking strength, vitality, or effectiveness: flabby, colourless prose. DERIVATIVES flabbily adverb, flabbiness noun ORIGIN late 17th cent.: alteration of earlier flappy.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

flabby

flabby adjective 1 his flabby stomach: soft, loose, flaccid, slack, untoned, drooping, sagging. ANTONYMS firm. 2 a flabby child: fat, fleshy, overweight, plump, chubby, portly, rotund, broad in the beam, of ample proportions, obese, corpulent; informal tubby, roly-poly, well-upholstered. ANTONYMS thin.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

flabby

flabby adjective 1 his flabby stomach: soft, loose, flaccid, unfirm, yielding, slack, lax, out of tone, drooping, droopy, sagging, saggy, pendulous, limp. ANTONYMS firm, taut. 2 she was a flabby woman: fat, fleshy, overweight, plump, chubby, portly, rotund, meaty, broad in the beam, of ample proportions, obese, corpulent, bloated, gross; informal blubbery, out of shape, tubby, roly-poly, beefy, porky, well padded, well covered, well upholstered; N. Amer. informal lard-assed. ANTONYMS thin, lean.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

flabby

flab by /flǽbi /形容詞 ｟くだけて 否定的に ｠1 〈人が 〉 (太って )しまりのない .2 〈物 事が 〉無力な ; 効き目のない ; 弱々しい .