Meaning

6 senses
  1. (literally)Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.

    The toy was soft and squishy, making it fun to squeeze.

    The mud was squishy underfoot after the rainstorm.

    weichlich, nachgebend, watschig

    пода́тливыйpodátlivyj

    easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility

  2. Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.

    (especially, literally)Soft and wet.

  3. (figuratively)Subjective or vague.

  4. (colloquial, derogatory, figuratively)Politically moderate.

  5. (figuratively)Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.

  6. Making a squish sound.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. The frog felt slimy and squishy.

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  2. These medlars are a lot more squishy.

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  3. Strawberry tree fruits are super squishy to the touch.

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  4. Ziri waited for the medlars to get soft and squishy.

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  5. You can still make some delicious jam from these squishy strawberries.

    deAus diesen matschigen Erdbeeren kann man immer noch leckere Marmelade kochen.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud:

Origin

From squish + -y.

From squish + -y.

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Forms

squishier, squishiest
Comparativesquishier Lesson
Superlativesquishiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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