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Flabby vs Bulbous - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between flabby and bulbous

is that flabby is yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh while bulbous is having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.

flabby

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh .
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , date = 1867-12-28 , title = External Manual Pressure during Labour , first = John , last = Wades , journal = The British Medical Journal , volume = 2 , page = 601 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=RxRAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA601&dq=flabby , passage = My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen. }}
  • (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
  • overwrought.
  • a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space

    Antonyms

    * (yielding to the touch) muscled

    Synonyms

    * (having a slight lack of acidity) flat

    bulbous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
  • (of a person) Overweight and round in shape.
  • * 2002 , Michael Bracken, All White Girls (page 9)
  • A neon cacophony hung only a few feet above their heads, the popping and buzzing of the lights only occasionally drowned out by the shouts of the barkers, bulbous men whose doughy fat strained at their sweat-stained t-shirts
  • (botany) Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
  • English refractory feminine rhymes