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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.
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)
- 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.
- 1955, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, chapter 13, page 140:
- Soft; floppy.
- 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:
- They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid ****, [...]
- 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:
- 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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Antonyms
Translations
flabby
soft, floppy
Lacking energy or vigor