Flesh vs. Carnal — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flesh and Carnal
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Flesh
Flesh is a term for some soft tissues of an organism. Various multicellular organisms have soft tissues that may be called "flesh".
Carnal
Relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities
Carnal desire
Flesh
The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat
Thought the boy needed some more flesh on his bones.
Carnal
Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
Carnal desire.
Flesh
Such tissue of an animal, used as food
Flesh of a cow.
Fish with white flesh.
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Carnal
Worldly or earthly; temporal
The carnal world.
Flesh
The surface or skin of the human body
Goosebumps on my flesh.
Carnal
Of or relating to the body or flesh; bodily
Carnal remains.
Flesh
Fatty tissue
"a woman of wide and abundant flesh" (A.S. Byatt).
Carnal
Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
Flesh
(Botany) The pulpy, usually edible part of a fruit or vegetable.
Carnal
Worldly or earthly; temporal.
Flesh
The human body
"the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to" (Shakespeare).
Carnal
Of or relating to the body or flesh.
Flesh
Sensual appetites
Gratification of the flesh.
Carnal
Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.
For ye are yet carnal.
Not sunk in carnal pleasure.
Carnal desires after miracles.
Flesh
Substance; reality
"The maritime strategy has an all but unstoppable institutional momentum behind it ... that has given force and flesh to the theory" (Jack Beatty).
Carnal
Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.
This carnal curPreys on the issue of his mother's body.
Flesh
To give substance or detail to; fill out. Often used with out
Fleshed out the novel with a subplot.
Carnal
Of the appetites and passions of the body;
Animal instincts
Carnal knowledge
Fleshly desire
A sensual delight in eating
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Flesh
To clean (a hide) of adhering flesh.
Carnal
Of or relating to the body or flesh;
Carnal remains
Flesh
To encourage (a falcon, for example) to participate in the chase by feeding it flesh from a kill.
Carnal
Of or relating to or belonging to the body;
A bodily organ
Bodily functions
Carnal remains
Flesh
To plunge or thrust (a weapon) into flesh.
Flesh
(Archaic) To inure (troops, for instance) to battle or bloodshed.
Flesh
To become plump or fleshy; gain weight.
Flesh
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
Flesh
The skin of a human or animal.
Flesh
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
Flesh
Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
Flesh
The human body as a physical entity.
Flesh
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
Flesh
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
Flesh
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
Flesh
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
Flesh
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
Flesh
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
Flesh
(transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
Flesh
(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
Flesh
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
Flesh
(transitive) To glut.
Flesh
(transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
Flesh
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
Flesh
The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
Flesh
Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
Flesh
The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
As if this flesh, which walls about our life,Were brass impregnable.
Flesh
The human eace; mankind; humanity.
All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Flesh
Human nature
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
Flesh
In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
Flesh
Kindred; stock; race.
He is our brother and our flesh.
Flesh
The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
Flesh
To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; - from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
Full bravely hast thou fleshedThy maiden sword.
The wild dogShall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
Flesh
To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
Old soldiersFleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.
Flesh
To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
Flesh
The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
Flesh
Alternative names for the body of a human being;
Leonardo studied the human body
He has a strong physique
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Flesh
A soft moist part of a fruit
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