flaccid

3 definitions found

flaccid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  flaccid \flac"cid\ (fl[a^]k"s[i^]d or fl[a^]s"s[i^]d), 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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Religious profession . . . has become flacced. --I.
                                                    Taylor.
     -- flac"cid*ly (fl[a^]k"s[i^]d*l[y^] or
     fl[a^]s"s[i^]d*l[y^]), adv. -- flac"cid*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

flaccid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flaccid
      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]

flaccid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "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