🥀 Limp plants 😩 Very tired

wilted

1 3.1

Limp and drooping from lack of water, heat, or disease

adjective
/ˈwɪltɪd/

: marchito

The gnarled stems of toes lay on the counter again, wilted and bodiless.

Examples

These were the the most wilted, the most irritated at me for moving them.
It's like extra wilted, more so than last night.
That brown soft spot usually connects a wilted portion and a healthy portion.
And tomato is kind of, you know, wilted and all right, you can tell the stuff's been in the cooler for a couple days.
Select young, firm roots with cut ends that look fresh, avoiding wilted or bitter green-tinged roots.

Blog text (26)
Wilted onions draped listlessly like worms.

Academic text (2007)
And think about a spinach and artichoke dip that's hot, but it doesn't have like wilted lettuce.
The wilted flowers drooped sadly in the heat of the afternoon sun.
After a week without water, the garden was filled with wilted plants.
She noticed the wilted leaves on the tomato plant and immediately watered it.

Synonyms

limp

vswilted

64 2.8

Not firm or strong and with little energy

is drooped from water loss, heat, or disease rather than general weakness

droopy

vswilted

13 3.9

Hanging down in a weak, loose way like eyelids and flowers

is caused by heat, water loss, or disease rather than just weakness

Antonyms

healthy

695 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

vibrant

81 4.1

Full of energy and activity that makes people feel excited

How Wilted

withered

1 4.6

wilted

1 3.1

limp

64 2.8

Surface Forms

wilted positive

Morphology

wilted = wilt (transparent) = wilt + ed

The adjective 'wilted' is transparently derived from the verb 'wilt' with the addition of the past participle suffix '-ed'.

Etymology

Wilted comes from the simple picture of a plant losing its strength and folding over, like a flower wilting when it has no water. So wilted means 'limp and drooping'.