What is another word for rubbery?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈʌbəɹi] (IPA)

Rubbery is a word that is often used to describe something that is elastic or flexible. There are many synonyms for this word, including stretchy, springy, bouncy, pliable, resilient, and supple. These words can be used to describe a variety of objects, including materials such as rubber, silicone, and plastic, as well as foods that have a rubbery texture, such as gummy candies or chewy meat. When choosing which word to use, it's important to consider the context and connotations of each synonym - for example, "springy" might be a better choice for describing a mattress, while "resilient" might be more appropriate for describing a rubber ball.

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What are the hypernyms for Rubbery?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for rubbery?

Antonyms for the word "rubbery" include words that describe textures that are completely different to this adjective. Some antonyms could be words such as crisp, firm, brittle or crunchy. For example, a crisp apple or a firm piece of chicken would be the opposite of something rubbery. Other antonyms could include smooth, soft, tender, or delicate, which are all textures that have a very different feel when compared to rubbery. Using these antonyms helps to give a clearer picture of the types of textures people would prefer in certain types of food, and can help chefs to identify when they need to improve their cooking skills to achieve the desired texture.

What are the antonyms for Rubbery?

Usage examples for Rubbery

Those were ragged months in which a less rubbery spirit might have been maimed, but the mother died before that actually happened.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
"No, it's wire, and the wire is covered with that black rubbery stuff.
"The Doers"
William John Hopkins
The rubbery hands of the autobath were soft and massaged him gently and expertly.
"Tangle Hold"
F. L. Wallace

Famous quotes with Rubbery

  • The makers of sneakers also thoughtfully pocked the soles with numberless crevices, craters, chevrons, mazes, crop circles, and other rubbery hieroglyphs, so that when you stepped in a moist pile of dog shit, as you most assuredly did within three bounds of leaving the house, they provided additional absorbing hours of pastime while you cleaned them out with a stick, gagging quietly but oddly content.
    Bill Bryson
  • In infancy I was afraid of the dark, which I peopled with all sorts of things; but my grandfather cured me of that by daring me to walk through certain dark parts of the house when I was 3 or 4 years old. After that, dark places held a certain fascination for me. But it is in that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing . My infant nightmares were classics, & in them there is not an abyss of agonising cosmic horror that I have not explored. I don't have such dreams now—but the memory of them will never leave me. It is undoubtedly from them that the darkest & most gruesome side of my fictional imagination is derived. At the ages of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 I have been whirled through formless abysses of infinite night and adumbrated horrors as black & as seethingly sinister as any of our friend Fafhrd's [a nickname Lovecraft used for Fritz Leiber] "splatter-stencil" triumphs. That's why I appreciate such triumphs so keenly, Many a time I have awaked in shrieks of panic, & have fought desperately to keep from sinking back into sleep & its unutterable horrors. At the age of six my dreams became peopled with a race of lean, faceless, rubbery, winged things to which I applied the home-made name of . Night after night they would appear in exactly the same form—& the terror they brought was beyond any verbal description. Long decades later I embodied them in one of my pseudo-sonnets, which you may have read. Well—after I was 8 all these things abated, perhaps because of the scientific habit of mind which I was acquiring (or trying to acquire). I ceased to believe in religion or any other form of the supernatural, & the new logic gradually reached my subconscious imagination. Still, occasional nightmares brought recurrent touches of the ancient fear—& as late as 1919 I had some that I could use in fiction without much change. is a literal dream transcript. Now, in the sere & yellow leaf (I shall be 47 in August), I seem to be rather deserted by stark horror. I have nightmares only 2 or 3 times a year, & of these none even approaches those of my youth in soul-shattering, phobic monstrousness. It is fully a decade & more since I have known in its most stupefying & hideous form. And yet, so strong is the impress of the past, I shall never cease to be fascinated by as a subject for aesthetic treatment. Along with the element of cosmic mystery & outsideness, it will always interest me more than anything else. It is, in a way, amusing that one of my chief interests should be an emotion whose poignant extremes I have never known in waking life!
    H. P. Lovecraft

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