Flaccid
['flæsɪd;'flæksɪd] or ['flæsɪd]
Definition
(adj.) drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness; 'a flaccid penis' .
Checker: Spenser--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
Typist: Thaddeus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Soft, limber, flabby, yielding, lax, drooping, hungry, loose, not firm, not stiff, not tense.
Checker: Maryann
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Flabby, limber, lax, tabid
ANT:Firm, muscular, braced, plump, chubby, brawny
Edited by Abraham
Definition
adj. flabby: lax: easily yielding to pressure: soft and weak.—adv. Flac′cidly.—ns. Flac′cidness Flaccid′ity want of firmness.
Edited by Guthrie
Examples
- In that subservience, and not in the meddling of Mr. Morgan, is the reason why American journalism is so flaccid, so repetitious and so dull. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He is very flaccid. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Edited by Guthrie