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Flaccid vs Bulbous - What's the difference?

flaccid | bulbous | Related terms |

Flaccid is a related term of bulbous.


As adjectives the difference between flaccid and bulbous

is that flaccid is flabby while bulbous is having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.

flaccid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Flabby.
  • * 1955 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , chapter 13, page 140:
    • Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head.
  • Soft; floppy.
  • * 2006 , Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality , page 93:
    • They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
  • Lacking energy or vigor.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * erect * firm

    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