squishier; squishiest
1
: being soft, yielding, and usually damp
The ground was wet and squishy.
2
: not firm, steady, or fixed : soft: such as
a
: lenient sense 1
To skeptics, all such talk may seem … squishy. For decades, CEOs … prized toughness above all.—
Geoff Colvin
Geoff Colvin
b
: imprecise
squishy estimates
squishiness
noun
Examples of squishy in a Sentence
The ground was wet and squishy.
those are awfully squishy estimates for the final cost of a new football stadium
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If their system works, the squishy descendants of WALL-E and R2D2 can look forward to undersea adventures – or in their miniature versions á la Fantastic Voyage, adventures inside your own body.
—New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2025
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—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
The new simulations reproduce Venus-like patterns by placing the planet in an episodic or plutonic squishy-lid regime, where magmatism and mantle plumes periodically weaken the surface without generating true plates.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Nov. 2025
Tuft & Needle actually made our list of memory foam pillows with their option that perfectly toes the line between squishy and supportive.
—Brittany Loggins, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2025
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New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2025
The metaverse was a squishy concept, pitched to a populace that had just emerged from Covid lockdowns and wanted little more than to be around other humans offline, in real life.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
The new simulations reproduce Venus-like patterns by placing the planet in an episodic or plutonic squishy-lid regime, where magmatism and mantle plumes periodically weaken the surface without generating true plates.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Nov. 2025
Tuft & Needle actually made our list of memory foam pillows with their option that perfectly toes the line between squishy and supportive.
—Brittany Loggins, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Squishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squishy. Accessed 14 Dec. 2025.
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