flaccid

Etymology

From Latin flaccidus.

adj

  1. Flabby.
    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. 1955, Joseph Heller, chapter 13, in Catch-22, page 140
  2. Soft; floppy.
    They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, … 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93
  3. Lacking energy or vigor.
    The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies. 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

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