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Flaccid definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLAC'CID, a. [L. flaccidus, from flacceo, to hand down, to flag.]
Soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; hanging down by its own weight; yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; as a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness; "a flaccid penis"
2: out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks" [syn: soft, flabby, flaccid]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin flaccidus, from flaccus flabby Date: 1620 1. a. not firm or stiff; also lacking normal or youthful firmness <flaccid muscles> b. of a plant part deficient in turgor 2. lacking vigor or force <flaccid leadership> • flaccidity noun • flaccidly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 a (of flesh etc.) hanging loose or wrinkled; limp, flabby. b (of plant tissue) soft; less rigid. 2 relaxed, drooping. 3 lacking vigour; feeble. Derivatives: flaccidity n. flaccidly adv. Etymology: F flaccide or L flaccidus f. flaccus flabby

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flaccid Flac"cid, a. [L. flaccidus, fr. flaccus flabby: cf. OF. flaccide.] Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. Religious profession . . . has become flacced. --I. Taylor. -- Flac"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use flaccid to describe a part of someone's body when it is unpleasantly soft and not hard or firm. I picked up her wrist. It was limp and flaccid. = limp ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Soft, limber, limp, flabby, yielding, lax, drooping, relaxed, inelastic, hanging loose, pendulous.

Moby Thesaurus

anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, emasculated, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flimsy, floppy, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rubbery, sapless, sapped, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft, spineless, strengthless, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakened, weakly