Meaning of FLACCID
| Pronunciation: | | 'flaksid
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | flabby, lax, limp, slack, soft, weak |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | Soft, limp, without tone. |
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| | Definition: | | Limp; tending to wilt. Compare turgid. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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