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.

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

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

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

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

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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