Flabby vs Withered - What's the difference?
flabby | withered |
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.
Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
(wither)
As adjectives the difference between flabby and withered
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 withered is shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.As a verb withered is
past tense of wither.flabby
English
Adjective
(er)- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space