flaccid
/ˈflasɪd
/ /ˈflaksɪd /adjective
1(Of part of the body) soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look or feel unpleasant: she took his flaccid hand in hers...
- Ben inspected the mess beneath his mother's now flaccid body.
- Shaking his head, he plopped him onto his horse with extreme difficulty then rose up behind him, clasping the flaccid body to his chest.
- The striated-muscle part of the esophageal body is flaccid at rest.
Synonyms
soft, loose, flabby, unfirm, yielding, slack, lax, out of tone, toneless;
drooping, droopy, sagging, saggy, pendulous, limp, floppy, wilting
1.1(Of plant tissue) drooping or inelastic through lack of water.Dead cuttings were obvious because their bud tissue had become flaccid....
- I don't want to see my planters parched and my plants flaccid.
- Then true leaves exhibit the flaccid condition.
1.2Lacking vigour or effectiveness: the flaccid leadership campaign was causing concern...
- In the case of the anti-deficit campaign, flaccid fiscal management was a weakness to be strenuously avoided.
- They hate us, their treatises and demagogues have long proclaimed, because we appear to them spiritually lukewarm, religiously flaccid.
- His character is flaccid and uniformly uninspired.
Synonyms
lacklustre, ineffective, ineffectual, lifeless, listless, muted, spiritless, lustreless, uninspiring, apathetic, unanimated, tame;
worthless, futile, fruitless
Derivatives
flaccidity
/ /fləkˈsɪdɪti / noun ...- Patent regimes could loosen to the point of complete flaccidity.
- ‘If there is some skin flaccidity, I will use superficial liposculpture to cause some skin retraction,’ he said.
- Her website is not alone in the mildly comic ineptitude of its construction and flaccidity of its message.
flaccidly
- His superbly chiseled lips, ordinarily compressed in a grim line that bespoke indomitable will, at the moment hung open flaccidly.
- Her head lied flaccidly upon Paul's shoulder, as she dozed into a fragile state of sleep.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French flaccide or Latin flaccidus, from flaccus 'flabby'.
Rhymes
- arabesquing
- Arabia
- Arabian
- Arabian babbler
- Arabian bird
- Arabian camel
- Arabian coffee
- Arabian cowrie
- Arabian Desert
- Arabian gazelle
- Arabian Gulf
- Arabianise
- Arabianize
- Arabian jasmine
- Arabian mustard
- Arabian-night
- Arabian Nights
- Arabian-nights'
- Arabian peninsula
- Arabian Sea
- Arabic
- arabica
- arabic acid
- Arabically
- Arabicisation