Flaccid

Definition: Flaccid

Flaccid

Adjective

1. Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip".

2. Lacking firmness or stiffness; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flaccid" was first used: 1620. (references)

Etymology: Flaccid \Flac"cid\, adjective. [Latin expression flaccidus, from flaccus flabby: compare to Old French expression flaccide.]. (references)

Health

Science

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Flaccid

Softness

Flaccid, flocculent, downy; edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow.

Weakness

Adjective: weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved; Verb: sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous.

Crosswords: Flaccid

Map showing isolation of poliovirus serotypes from acute flaccid paralysis cases--Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1999. Credit: CDC.

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Health

A neuroparalytic illness characterized by symmetric, descending flaccid paralysis of motor and autonomic nerves, usually beginning with the cranial nerves. (references)

More severe infection is marked by headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, occasional convulsions (especially in infants) and spastic (but rarely flaccid) paralysis. (references)

Constriction of the trabecular smooth muscle and helicine arteries induced by sympathetic innervation makes the penis flaccid, with blood pressure in the cavernosal sinuses of the penis near venous pressure. (references)

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Expressions using "flaccid": flaccid bladder ♦ flaccid paralysis. Additional references.

Albanian

i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مترهل (flabby, limp, loppy, washy), ‏لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), ‏رخو (flabby, lax, limp, loose, quaggy, slack, sluggish, soft). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабохарактерен (flabby, frail, purposeless, weak, weak-kneed), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), без енергия (flabby), провиснал (bagged, baggy, scraggly, scraggy, straggling). (various references)

Chinese 

松弛. (various references)

Czech

zvadlý (dead, faded, sapless, sear, withered). (various references)

Danish

slap. (various references)

Dutch

flaccidus. (various references)

Finnish

veltto (indolent, inert, languid, limp, slack), rento (easy, easy-going, limp, relaxed, slack), hervoton (inert, limp, numb). (various references)

French

flaccide. (various references)

German

schlaff (baggy, drooping, exhausted, flabbily, flabby, flaccidly, floppily, floppy, lax, limp, limply, listless, loose, shattered, slack, slacky, soft, torpid, worn out), flaccidus (soft). (various references)

Greek 

μαλθακός (delicate, effeminate, indolent), πλαδαρός (flabby, floppy), χαύνοσ (languid, languorous), χαύνος (torpid), χαλαρόσ (lax, limp, listless, loose, slack), χαλαρός (lax, limp, loose, loose-fitting, relaxed), άτονοσ (colorless, colourless, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nerveless, spiritless, toneless, unaccented), άτονος (atonic, sluggish), :χαλαρός. (various references)

Hebrew 

מרופ�" (loose, relaxed, slack, weakened), חלש (faint, feeble, frail, run down, slight, weak), רך (dainty, gentle, limping, mellow, soft, tender), רפ�" (feeble, flabby, languid, lax, limp, limping, loose, slack, soft, weak). (various references)

Hungarian

petyhüdt (drooping, droopy, flabby, floppy, lax, limp, sloppy). (various references)

Indonesian

ranum (appetizing). (various references)

Italian

flaccido (flabby, limp, soft). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

弛緩 (relaxation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しか�" (admonishingat the cost of ones life, chronicler, collection of poems, crown of a tooth, eclampsia, giving up illusions and attaining enlightenment, government service, historical view, officer, personal impression, relaxation, samurai's service), ちか�" (masher, molester, pervert, relaxation, substitute). (various references)

Manx

lhag (baggy, dent, depressed, dim, easy fitting, faltering, feeble, flagging, frail in health, ineffective). (various references)

Pig Latin

accidflay.(various references)

Portuguese

flácido (flabby, limp, loppy, pappy, pithless, pulpy). (various references)

Romanian

fleşcãit (flabby), flasc (flabby, lax, limp, soft), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), moleşit (drooping, drowsy, dull, enervate, flabby, tired, weak), bleg (blockhead, dolt, drooping, flabby, foolish, half hearted, remiss, sheepish, shy, silly, skulker, sloppy, sluggish, timid, weak, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

дряблый (boggy, dozy, flabby, quaggy, shrunken). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

flacidan. (various references)

Spanish

fláccido (flabby, limp). (various references)

Swedish

slapp (flabby, flaggy, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, pithless, slack, wet), slak (flabby, floppy, loose, slack), sladdrig (flabby, limp). (various references)

Thai

หย่อนยาน (เนื้อ) (flabby). (various references)

Turkish

zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), yumuşak (benignant, bland, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lax, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), sarkık (bagging, baggy, beetle, drooping, droopy, flabby, floppy, hanging, pendant, pendent, pensile, slouching, slouchy), iradesiz (feeble minded, flabby, invertebrate, irresolute, non compos, non compos mentis, simple, spineless, volitionless, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded), gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабохарактерний (fibreless, flabby, pulpy, sappy), в'ялий (drowsy, flabby, heavy-handed, listless, oscitant, phlegmatic, quaggy, sapless, sleepy, stagnant), відвислий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

uỷ mị (flabby, lackadaisical, maudlin, misty-eyed, mushy, soft), mềm (cushiony, ductile, flabby, limber, limp, loose, mushy, soft, supple, supply, yielding). (various references)

flaccidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flaccid": flaccidities, flaccidity, flaccidly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flaccid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faccid, Faccio, facid, falaccid, flaca, flacced, flaccida, flacid, flacida, flacit, flascid, fracced. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: alcid, calif.

-3 letters: acid, alif, cadi, caid, calf, clad, dial, fail, fila, flic, laic, laid.

-4 letters: aid, ail, cad, dal, fad, fid, fil, lac, lad, lid.

-5 letters: ad, ai, al, fa, id, if, la, li.

+2 letters: calcified, decalcify, fascicled, flaccidly.

+3 letters: flaccidity.

+4 letters: decalcified, decalcifies, uncalcified.

+5 letters: decalcifying, fasciculated, flaccidities.