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rubbery.

Adjective
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MEANING

Flexible, springy, or resistant in a way resembling rubber.

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  • rubbery texture
  • rubbery consistency

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The rubbery coating bent without splitting.
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rubbery

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more rubbery; superlative most rubbery. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.

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