What is another word for blubbery?

Pronunciation: [blˈʌbəɹi] (IPA)

Blubbery is a descriptive term for something that is thick, soft and lumpy. It often refers to the texture of animal or human fat, or a food item that is very moist and oily. Synonyms for blubbery include flabby, gelatinous, wobbly, squishy, and plump. Other similar words include bloated, bulky, corpulent, fleshy, and puffy. These terms can be used to describe both physical objects and emotions or speech patterns that are characterized by an excess of uncontrolled, emotional expression. Regardless of context, all of these words are associated with things that are round, soft, and ungainly.

Synonyms for Blubbery:

What are the hypernyms for Blubbery?

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

What are the opposite words for blubbery?

Blubbery is often used to describe something that is swollen, fatty, or excessively thick. Some antonyms for the word blubbery can include the following: slim, slender, lean, skinny, gaunt, and bony. These words can be used to describe someone or something that is thin, agile, or lanky. Other antonyms can include terms such as harsh, rough, hard, dry, and thin-skinned. These words can be used to describe something that is not soft, pliable, or malleable. While there are many possible antonyms for blubbery, the specific choice will depend on the context and the intended meaning of the sentence.

Usage examples for Blubbery

Make haste, man and hear what this gem'man, as was in a dirty blubbery whale-ship, and is now in his Majesty's service, has got to say.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers' knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
Casa del Sonora, whither she went, was an old, two-story structure of the truly Spanish type, and it was kept by a huge, blubbery creature with piggish eyes and a bloated, purple countenance and the palsy.
"Jean of the Lazy A"
B. M. Bower

Famous quotes with Blubbery

  • I hate whales. I hate them. I can’t stand those stupid, blubbery, floating around, self-indulgent smug-faced krill-eating fat jerks with all their sycophantic hippie save-the- planet peacenik eco-terrorist generation X-er groupies. Greenpeace? Get a job!
    Arthur M. Jolly
  • 'Beautifully written . . . the webs of imagery that Harris has so carefully woven . . . contains writing of which our best writers would be proud . . . there is not a singly ugly or dead sentence . . .' - or so sang the critics. is a genre novel, and all genre novels contain dead sentences - unless you feel the throb of life in such periods as 'Tommaso put the lid back on the cooler' or 'Eric Pickford answered' or 'Pazzi worked like a man possessed' or 'Margot laughed in spite of herself' or 'Bob Sneed broke the silence.' What these commentators must be thinking of, I suppose, are the bits when Harris goes all blubbery and portentous (every other phrase a spare tyre), or when, with a fugitive poeticism, he swoons us to a dying fall: 'Starling looked for a moment through the wall, past the wall, out to forever and composed herself...' 'It seemed forever ago...' 'He looked deep, deep into her eyes...' 'His dark eyes held her whole...' Needless to say, Harris has become a serial murderer of English sentences, and is a necropolis of prose.
    Martin Amis

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