Flabby vs Bulbous - What's the difference?
flabby | bulbous | Related terms |
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.
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)
(botany) Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
English refractory feminine rhymes
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)- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
Antonyms
* (yielding to the touch) muscledSynonyms
* (having a slight lack of acidity) flatbulbous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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