blobby

2 5.5

Soft and round with no clear shape or edges

adjective
/ˈblɑːbi/

: blandito

As I looked at the puddle, I noticed a blobby mass floating on the surface.
blobby shapes

Examples

It's more like brown, green, blobby overpainting.
They're sort of these giant, single celled, blobby organisms that you can see in the summer when you're walking around in the forest.
The artist created a soft, blobby sculpture that looked like it had melted.
He drew a blobby character that was supposed to represent confusion and chaos.

Synonyms

gloppy

vsblobby

Informal

1 5.5

Thick and sticky in a messy way

is about lacking clear shape rather than thickness or stickiness

squashy

vsblobby

1 3.6

Soft and easy to crush, often wet or spongy

is about a shapeless appearance rather than how easily it crushes

squidgy

vsblobby

1 7.4

Soft and a little wet so you can squeeze it easily

is about a shapeless look rather than being squeezed

Antonyms

defined

82 3.2

Easy to see because it has clear edges and shape

How Shapeless

amorphous

Specialized

5 7.3

blobby

2 5.5

lumpy

37 2.2

rounded

45 2.4

compact

80 4.1

Surface Forms

blobby positive

Morphology

blobby = blob (transparent) = blob + y

Clear adjectival formation from the noun 'blob' with '-y', meaning 'having the qualities of a blob' and thus directly predictable.

Etymology

Blobby comes from blob, a word for a soft, shapeless lump, plus the ending -y that means 'full of' or 'like'. So something blobby looks soft and without a clear shape, just like a blob.