rubbery

Questions about rubbery

What does rubbery mean?

rubbery means "having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rubbery?

rubbery has 3 syllables: rub-be-ry. The stress falls on "rub". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌbɚi/.

What is another word for rubbery?

Close synonyms include rubberlike, cartilaginous, gristly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rubbery a common word?

rubbery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.