flaccid

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈflæ(k)sɪd/

Definition of flaccid

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. 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; […]”
  3. (specifically)Soft; floppy.
    “They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]”
  4. Lacking energy or vigor.
    “The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.”

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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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