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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flaccid
adj 1: 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" [syn: lax,
limp, slack]
2: lacking firmness or stiffness; "flabby around the middle";
"flaccid cheeks" [syn: flabby]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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