flaccid \flac"cid\ (fl[a^]k"s[i^]d or fl[a^]s"s[i^]d), a. [L.
   flaccidus, fr. flaccus flabby: cf. OF. flaccide.]
   Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft
   and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid
   muscle; flaccid flesh.
   [1913 Webster]

         Religious profession . . . has become flacced. --I.
                                                  Taylor.
   -- flac"cid*ly (fl[a^]k"s[i^]d*l[y^] or
   fl[a^]s"s[i^]d*l[y^]), adv. -- flac"cid*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	flaccid
     adj 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" [syn: lax,
             limp, slack]
     2: lacking firmness or stiffness; "flabby around the middle";
        "flaccid cheeks" [syn: flabby]

	

	51 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaccid":
   anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated,
   drooping, droopy, dull, effete, emasculated, etiolated, faint,
   faintish, feeble, flabby, flimsy, floppy, gone, gutless, imbecile,
   impotent, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose,
   lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless, pooped, powerless,
   relaxed, rubbery, sapless, sapped, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft,
   spineless, strengthless, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak,
   weakened, weakly

	

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