adj
Meaning 1
Easily squashed when pressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a squashy tomato
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
squashy
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adj
Meaning 2
Resembling a bog or marsh underfoot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Resembling a squash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- spongy bread
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spongy, squishy, spongelike
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
(of soil) soft and watery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the ground was boggy under foot
- a marshy coastline
- miry roads
- wet mucky lowland
- muddy barnyard
- quaggy terrain
- the sloughy edge of the pond
- swampy bayous
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pulpy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English squash Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English squashy From squash + -y.