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Webster 1913 Edition


flaccid

flac′cid

(flăk′sĭd or flăs′sĭd)
,
Adj.
[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.
flac′cid-ly
(flăk′sĭd-ly̆ or flăs′sĭd-ly̆)
,
adv.
flac′cid-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Flaccid

FLAC'CID

,
Adj.
[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.

Definition 2024


flaccid

flaccid

English

Adjective

flaccid (comparative more flaccid, superlative most flaccid)

  1. Flabby.
    • 1955, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, chapter 13, page 140:
      Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head.
  2. Soft; floppy.
    • 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:
      They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid ****, [...]
  3. Lacking energy or vigor.
    • 2006, Jeff Bloodworth, “"THE PROGRAM FOR BETTER JOBS AND INCOME": WELFARE REFORM, LIBERALISM, AND THE FAILED PRESIDENCY OF JIMMY CARTER.”, in International Social Science Review, volume 81, number 3/4, page 135-150:
      The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.

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