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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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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