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Lank vs Spindly - What's the difference?

lank | spindly |

As adjectives the difference between lank and spindly

is that lank is slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean while spindly is characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.

As a verb lank

is to become lank; to make lank.

lank

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
  • * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
  • * Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
  • (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  • * Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
  • (obsolete) languid; drooping.
  • * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
    • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    spindly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.
    • She has spindly legs.