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Wilted vs Withered - What's the difference?

wilted | withered |

As adjectives the difference between wilted and withered

is that wilted is drooping, typically due to lack of water while withered is shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.

As verbs the difference between wilted and withered

is that wilted is past tense of wilt while withered is past tense of wither.

wilted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of plants) Drooping, typically due to lack of water.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (wilt)

    • withered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (wither)