Fleshy vs Athletic - What's the difference?
fleshy | athletic | Related terms |
Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
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(of a person) Having considerable flesh.
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(not comparable) having to do with athletes
* Are you a member of the American ''Athletic'' Association?
physically active
* Since you're such an ''athletic'' person, you may wish to consider joining.
having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape
* You have such an ''athletic'' build--you must work out regularly.
An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability
* The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence.
Fleshy is a related term of athletic.
As an adjective fleshy
is of, related to, or resembling flesh.As a proper noun athletic is
(baseball) a player on the team oakland athletics.fleshy
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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.
- [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
- The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
- 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.
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- 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.