flaccid

English

Etymology

From Latin flaccidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflæksɪd/, /ˈflæsɪd/

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• Rhymes: -æksɪd, -æsɪd
• Hyphenation: flac‧cid

Adjective

flaccid (comparative more flaccid, superlative most flaccid)

1. Flabby.
   • 1955, Joseph Heller, chapter 13, in Catch-22, page 140:

     Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head.

2. Soft; floppy.
   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 267:

     The combatants with rage most horrible
     Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare,
     And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air,
     Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]

   • 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:

     They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]

3. Lacking energy or vigor.
   • 2006, Jeff Bloodworth, “"THE PROGRAM FOR BETTER JOBS AND INCOME": WELFARE REFORM, LIBERALISM, AND THE FAILED PRESIDENCY OF JIMMY CARTER.”, in International Social Science Review, volume 81, number 3/4, pages 135-150:

     The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.

Antonyms

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• erect
• firm
• turgid

Related terms

• flaccidly

Translations

flabby

• Bulgarian: отпуснат (bg) (otpusnat)
• Finnish: veltto (fi)
• French: flasque (fr)
• German: schlaff (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πλαδαρός (pladarós)

• Hungarian: petyhüdt (hu), ernyedt (hu)
• Italian: moscio (it) m, flaccido (it)
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• Latin: flaccidus
• Maori: ngongohe, kūreherehe
• Plautdietsch: schlaup, flebrich
• Portuguese: flácido (pt), fofo (pt)
• Russian: вя́лый (ru) (vjályj), дря́блый (ru) (drjáblyj)
• Spanish: flácido (es), mole (es)
• Swedish: sladdrig (sv)

soft, floppy

• Bikol Central: luntoy
• Bulgarian: мек (bg) (mek)
• Dutch: slap (nl), slobberig (nl)
• Finnish: veltto (fi), löysä (fi)
• French: flasque (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πλαδαρός (pladarós)

• Hungarian: puha (hu)
• Maori: ngongohe, whakanewa, ngore, ngorengore, tīmohea, tihō, tihōhō, pīkawikawi
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• Plautdietsch: schlaup, flebrich
• Portuguese: mole (pt), fofo (pt)
• Russian: вя́лый (ru) (vjályj)
• Spanish: flácido (es), blando (es)
• Swedish: slak (sv)
• Volapük: nestifik

lacking energy or vigor

• Bulgarian: безсилен (bg) (bezsilen)
• Finnish: veltto (fi)
• French: flasque (fr)
• Hungarian: erőtlen (hu), ernyedt (hu)
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• Maori: ngoikore
• Russian: вя́лый (ru) (vjályj)
• Swedish: slapp (sv)

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• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} linur (is), ^{(please verify)} slappur (is), ^{(please verify)} máttlaus
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