About The Word Flaccid

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Flaccid

Flaccid Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Flaccid?
[adj] lacking firmness or stiffness; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks"
[adj] lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip" Synonyms | Synonyms for Flaccid: flabby | lax | limp | slack | soft | weak Related Terms | Find terms related to Flaccid: 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 See Also | Flaccid In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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