RUBBERY


Meaning of RUBBERY in English

rub ‧ ber ‧ y /ˈrʌbəri/ BrE AmE adjective

1 . looking or feeling like rubber:

rubbery eggs

rubbery lips

2 . if your legs or knees are rubbery, they feel weak or unsteady

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THESAURUS

▪ hard difficult to press down, break, or cut, and not at all soft:

I fell onto the hard stone floor.

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The clay gets harder as it dries.

▪ firm not completely hard, but not easy to press or bend – used especially when this seems a good thing:

I like to sleep on a firm mattress.

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exercises to make your stomach muscles nice and firm

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The pears were firm and juicy.

▪ stiff difficult to bend and not changing shape:

a piece of stiff cardboard

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The collar of his shirt felt stiff and uncomfortable.

▪ solid made of a thick hard material and not hollow:

a solid oak door

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The floor felt strong and solid beneath her feet.

▪ rigid /ˈrɪdʒəd, ˈrɪdʒɪd/ having a structure that is made of a material that is difficult or impossible to bend:

The tent is supported by a rigid frame.

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Carry sandwiches in a rigid container.

▪ crisp/crispy used about food that is pleasantly hard, so that it makes a noise when you bite it – often used about things that have been cooked in thin ↑ slice s until they are brown:

Bake the cookies until they are crisp and golden.

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crispy bacon

▪ crunchy food that is crunchy makes a noise when you bite on it – often used about things that are fresh, for example fruit, vegetables, and nuts:

a crunchy breakfast cereal

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The carrots were still nice and crunchy.

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a crunchy salad

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crunchy peanut butter

▪ tough meat that is tough is too hard and is difficult to cut or eat:

The meat was tough and flavourless.

▪ rubbery too hard and bending like rubber rather than breaking – used especially about meat:

The chicken was all rubbery.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.