floppy
Hangs without support
Floppy means soft and hanging loosely, tending to flop or fall limply: a floppy hat, floppy ears on a basset hound.
The word suggests something flexible rather than rigid, often endearingly so.
A floppy disk—now largely obsolete—was a thin, flexible magnetic storage medium, distinguished from hard drives by its bendable casing.
Portable magnetic storage medium
- magneticAttracting iron or attention
- storageSpace for keeping goods
- dataFacts for analysis
- driveOperate a vehicle
kilobyte · megabyte · bootable · format · sector · track · read-write · portable
Hanging or bending downward
- saggingBending downward weakly
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
- flaccidSoft, lacking firmness
- slackAbsence of tautness
loose · dangling · hanging · droopy · pendulous · lolling · wilted · languid
Soft and easily compressed
- bendableAble to curve
- pliableCapable of bending easily
- flexibleAble to bend freely
- suppleFlexing without damage
yielding · malleable · squashy · cushiony · spongy · pliant · squeezable · compressible
Limply relaxed in posture
- oversizedExceeding typical dimensions
- baggyLoose and drooping
- loose-fittingNot tight on body
- unstructuredLacking imposed order
relaxed · casual · wide-brimmed · boho · sun hat · beach hat · brimmed · shapeless
diskette
Portable magnetic storage medium
drive · kilobyte · megabyte · bootable · format · sector · track · read-write · portable · obsolete
drooping
Hanging or bending downward
slack · loose · dangling · hanging · droopy · pendulous · lolling · wilted · languid · deflated
squishy
Soft and easily compressed
supple · yielding · malleable · squashy · cushiony · spongy · pliant · squeezable · compressible · giving
slouchy
Limply relaxed in posture
- oversizedExceeding typical dimensions
- baggyLoose and drooping
- loose-fittingNot tight on body
unstructured · relaxed · casual · wide-brimmed · boho · sun hat · beach hat · brimmed · shapeless · flowing
- droopingsagging, wilting, hanging, limp, sag
- discsdisc, CD, disk, DVD, record
- obsolete techVHS, dial-up modem, cassette tape, Betamax, typewriter
- visual storytellingcomic strip, comic book, graphic novel, manga, picture book
- flexible thingspliant, elastic, bendy, stretchy, springy
- basketball offensepick and roll, give and go, fast break, spacing, penetration
- belly flopFlat, painful dive
- flip flopBackless sandal, toe strap
- floppy disc driveDevice reading flexible magnetic disks
- belly floppedLanded flat on water
- floppy disksFlexible magnetic storage media
- floppy driveMagnetic disk reader
flop, flopping, flopped, floppy disk, floppiness, floppiest, floppier, floppily, floppies