flaccid
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin flaccidus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
flaccid (comparative more flaccid, superlative most flaccid)
- 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.
- Soft; floppy.
- 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:
- They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
- 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:
- 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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Translations
flabby
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soft, floppy
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Lacking energy or vigor
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