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Fleshlier vs Fleshier - What's the difference?

fleshlier | fleshier |

As adjectives the difference between fleshlier and fleshier

is that fleshlier is (fleshly) while fleshier is (fleshy).

fleshlier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (fleshly)

    • fleshly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • corporeal or bodily
  • * Denham
    • Fleshly bondage.
  • sensual; carnal; lascivious
  • * Bible, 1 Peter ii. 11
    • Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
  • worldly
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 12
    • Fleshly wisdom.
  • (obsolete) animal; not vegetable
    • (Dryden)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Carnally; sexually.
  • *:
  • *:Syr said Launcelot ye saye that that good kny?t is my sone That ou?test thow to knowe and no man better said the good man / For thow knewest the doughter of kyng Pelles flesshely / and on her thow begattest Galahad / And that was he that at the feest of Pentecost satte in the sege peryllous

    • fleshier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (fleshy)

    • fleshy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
  • * 1850 , , David Copperfield , ch. 7:
    • Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.
  • * 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 8:
    • [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
  • (of a person) Having considerable flesh.
  • * 1894 , , The Prisoner of Zenda , ch. 3:
    • The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
  • * 1908 , , "The Heathen":
    • He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.
  • * 2009 , Lisa Abend, " Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks," Time , 15 Jan.:
    • It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.

    Usage notes

    * is not necessarily negative in connotation (as fat, for example) and may be used to describe men or women.

    Synonyms

    * (having considerable flesh) corpulent, full-figured, porky, pudgy, well-covered

    Antonyms

    * (having considerable flesh) bony, slender, slim