Flabby vs Plump - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between flabby and plump

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 plump is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.

As a verb plump is

to grow plump; to swell out.

As an adverb plump is

directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

As a noun plump is

a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.

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 .

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(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

plump

English

Verb

(en verb)

To grow ; to swell out.

Her cheeks have plumped .

To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

* Spectator

Dulcissa plumps into a chair.

To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .

* Fuller

to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles

To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.

to plump a stone into water

To give a plumper (kind of vote).

To give (a vote), as a plumper.

(used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.

"A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out

Adjective

(en-adj)

Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.

* (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)

The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.

Fat.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

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Adverb

Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.

a plump of trees, fowls, or spears

To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.

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