Flaccid - English meaning

verb

Bend or hang downwards limply.

Usage examples:

A long black cloak drooped from his shoulders

noun

An act or instance of drooping; a limp or weary attitude.

Usage examples:

The exhausted droop of her shoulders

adjective

Bending or hanging down heavily

Usage examples:

Drooping branches, bloodhounds have drooping eyes and floppy ears.

adjective

Hanging down limply; drooping.

Usage examples:

A droopy moustache

adjective

Bending or hanging down heavily

Usage examples:

He had a long droopy moustache., it turns out droopy eyelids are a common sign of aging.

adjective

(of a part of a person's body) soft, loose, and fleshy.

Usage examples:

This exercise helps to flatten a flabby stomach

adjective

Soft and fat

Usage examples:

Flabby arms/thighs, i was starting to get a bit flabby around my waist., a flabby argument

adjective

Weak and without force

Usage examples:

A flabby argument

adjective

Tending to flop or hang loosely.

Usage examples:

His dark floppy hair

noun

A flexible removable magnetic disk (typically encased in a hard plastic shell) for storing data.

Usage examples:

High-end computer furniture pieces allow the user to lock up all the storage media such as floppies…

adjective

Soft and easily bent; not able to maintain a firm shape or position

Usage examples:

A floppy hat, a dog with big, floppy ears

adjective

Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.

Usage examples:

Lax security arrangements at the airport

noun

Lacrosse.

Usage examples:

I wore pads and a helmet whenever i played lax

adjective

Lacking care, attention, or control; not severe or strong enough

Usage examples:

Security at the airport seemed lax., laxity in enforcing safety regulations can cost lives.

verb

Walk with difficulty, typically because of a damaged or stiff leg or foot.

Usage examples:

He limped heavily as he moved

noun

A tendency to limp; a gait impeded by injury or stiffness.

Usage examples:

The accident left him with a pronounced limp

adjective

Lacking internal strength or structure; not stiff or firm.

Usage examples:

She let her whole body go limp

adjective

Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached.

Usage examples:

A loose tooth

noun

Loose play.

Usage examples:

He was in powerful form in the loose

verb

Set free; release.

Usage examples:

The hounds have been loosed

adjective

Hanging down loosely.

Usage examples:

Pendulous branches

adjective

Hanging down loosely

Usage examples:

Pendulous blossoms

adjective

Sinking or bulging downwards under weight or pressure or through lack of strength.

Usage examples:

Sagging shelves bearing rusty paint tins

verb

Sink, subside, or bulge downwards under weight or pressure or through lack of strength.

Usage examples:

She let her head sag lower and lower

adjective

Lower or less strong

Usage examples:

He said he cut taxes by $9 billion as mayor in an effort to revitalize the city's sagging economy.,…

adjective

Tending to sink or bulge downwards under weight or pressure.

Usage examples:

The saggy mattress groaned under my weight

adjective

Hanging or dropping down to a lower level

Usage examples:

I have a lot of saggy skin on my stomach since i lost weight.

adjective

Not taut or held tightly in position; loose.

Usage examples:

A slack rope

noun

The part of a rope or line which is not held taut; the loose or unused part.

Usage examples:

I picked up the rod and wound in the slack

verb

Loosen (something, especially a rope).

Usage examples:

Slacking the outhaul allows you to adjust the sail

adjective

Easy to mould, cut, compress, or fold; not hard or firm to the touch.

Usage examples:

Soft margarine

adverb

(of a consonant) pronounced as a fricative (as c in ice ).

adjective

Not hard or firm; changing its shape when pressed

Usage examples:

The crabs are plucked from the water before their soft shells have had a chance to harden., the bab…

adjective

(of a voice or musical sound) lacking expression or interest.

Usage examples:

He began to sing in a toneless voice

adjective

(of a voice) not expressing any emotion

adjective

Not solid or secure.

Usage examples:

Unfirm ground

verb

(of a plant, leaf, or flower) become limp through heat, loss of water, or disease; droop.

Usage examples:

At this time, chill treatment seedlings were severely wilted with extensive leaf rolling characteri…

noun

Any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases of plants characterized by wilting of the foliage.

Usage examples:

These varieties are more resistant to aphids and wilt

verb

Present participle of wilt

Usage examples:

Cut flowers will soon wilt without water., after only an hour's hiking they were beginning to wilt …

adjective

(of a substance or object) giving way under pressure; not hard or rigid.

Usage examples:

She dropped on to the yielding cushions

verb

Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).

Usage examples:

The land yields grapes and tobacco

adjective

Soft substances or qualities that are yielding can bend

Usage examples:

A yielding mire of wet leaves, yielding flesh/softness