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flaccid
/ ˈflæs-; ˈflæksɪd /
adjective
- lacking firmness; soft and limp; flabby
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Derived Forms
- ˈflaccidly, adverb
- flacˈcidity, noun
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Other Words From
- flac·cid·i·ty [fla-, sid, -i-tee, flak-], flac·cid·ness noun
- flac·cid·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flaccid1
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Example Sentences
In our less sexist age, Barack Obama has nevertheless found his Syria policy called “flaccid” and “impotent.”
Waiting for a taxi, he breathed in the spicy, flaccid atmosphere of the city and felt the strangeness of things around him.
There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.
The great hope after all lies in the knotless, rather flaccid character of the people.
His tail is not prehensile but flaccid, and half as long again as his head and body.
The two men went to the conservatory and gazed in upon a ruin of limp leaves and flaccid petals, killed by the powerful gases.
Fie, fie upon the flaccid, castrated century, that has no other use than to chew over again the deeds of the past.
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