flaccid

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin flaccidus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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flaccid (comparative more flaccid, superlative most flaccid)

  1. Flabby.
    Antonym: firm
    • 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.
  2. Soft; floppy.
    1. (specifically, of an erectile organ) Not erect.
      Synonym: soft
      Antonyms: erect, turgid, hard
      • 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:
        They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
  3. 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.

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