Flabbier vs Slabbier - What's the difference?
flabbier | slabbier |
(flabby)
Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh .
* {{quote-journal
, date = 1867-12-28
, title = External Manual Pressure during Labour
, first = John
, last = Wades
, journal = The British Medical Journal
, volume = 2
, page = 601
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=RxRAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA601&dq=flabby
, passage = 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.
}}
(of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
overwrought.
(slabby)
thick; viscous
sloppy; slimy
As adjectives the difference between flabbier and slabbier
is that flabbier is comparative of flabby while slabbier is comparative of slabby.flabbier
English
Adjective
(head)flabby
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Adjective
(er)- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
Antonyms
* (yielding to the touch) muscledSynonyms
* (having a slight lack of acidity) flatslabbier
English
Adjective
(head)slabby
English
Adjective
(er)- ''They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff.' — Selden.
- (Gay)