flaccid

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Flabby; lacking firmness or muscle tone.
    — 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.
  2. Soft; floppy.
    — The combatants with rage most horrible Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare, And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air, Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]
  3. Soft; floppy.; Not erect. specifically
    — They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
  4. Lacking energy or vigor.
    — The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.

词形变化

more flaccid comparative most flaccid superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
acute flaccid myelitis flaccidity flaccidness flaccify nonflaccid subflaccid
相关词
flaccidly

词源

Etymology tree
Latin flaccus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *-ēō
Latin -eō
Latin flacceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin flaccid(us)bor.
English flaccid
Borrowed from Latin flaccid(us).
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