flaccid
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
/ˈflæ(k)sɪd/
Definition of flaccid
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Flabby; lacking firmness or muscle tone.
“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.”
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adj
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Flabby; lacking firmness or muscle tone.
“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.”
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Soft; floppy.
“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; […]”
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(specifically)Soft; floppy.
“They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]”
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Lacking energy or vigor.
“The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin flaccus Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin flacceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin flaccidusbor. English flaccid From Latin flaccid(us).
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