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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drooping |
| Synonyms: | debilitated, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, flabby, flimsy, inelastic, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, nerveless, quaggy, sapped, slack, soft, weak, weakened |
| Antonyms: | firm, taut, tight |
| Main Entry: | floppy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limp |
| Synonyms: | drooping, droopy, flabby, flaccid, loose, pendulous, relaxed, sagging, saggy, slack |
| Antonyms: | erect, stiff |
| Main Entry: | lax |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slack, remiss |
| Synonyms: | any way, asleep on job, behindhand, broad, careless, casual, delinquent, derelict, devil-may-care, disregardful, easygoing, flaccid, forgetful, general, imprecise, inaccurate, indefinite, indifferent, inexact, lenient, neglectful, negligent, nonspecific, oblivious, overindulgent, paying no mind, regardless, shapeless, slipshod, sloppy, soft, unmindful, vague, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, rigid, strict, tight |
| Main Entry: | limp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not stiff; weak |
| Synonyms: | bending, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, enervated, exhausted, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flexuous, flimsy, floppy, impressible, infirm, languid, languishing, lax, lethargic, limber, listless, loose, plastic, pliable, pliant, relaxed, slack, soft, spent, spiritless, supple, tired, unsubstantial, weakened, wearied, worn out, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff, straight, strong, unbending |
| Main Entry: | loose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not tight; unconstrained |
| Synonyms: | apart, asunder, at large, baggy, clear, detached, disconnected, easy, escaped, flabby, flaccid, floating, free, hanging, insecure, lax, liberated, limp, loosened, movable, not fitting, relaxed, released, separate, slack, slackened, sloppy, unattached, unbolted, unbound, unbuttoned, uncaged, unclasped, unconfined, unconnected, undone, unfastened, unfettered, unhinged, unhooked, unlatched, unlocked, unpinned, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsecured, unshackled, untied, wobbly |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | constrained, restricted, taut, tight |
| Main Entry: | slack |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loose, baggy; inactive |
| Synonyms: | dull, easy, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flimsy, inert, infirm, laggard, lax, leisurely, limp, not taut, passive, quaggy, quiet, relaxed, sloppy, slow, slow-moving, sluggish, soft, supine, unsteady, weak |
| Antonyms: | rigid, stiff, taut, tight |
| Main Entry: | soft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of condition |
| Synonyms: | doughy, fat, flabby, flaccid, fleshy, formless, gone to seed, limp, out of shape, overindulged, pampered, untrained, weak |
| Antonyms: | firm, healthy, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | weak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not strong |
| Synonyms: | anemic, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, effete, enervated, exhausted, faint, feeble, flaccid, flimsy, forceless, fragile, frail, hesitant, impuissant, infirm, insubstantial, irresolute, lackadaisical*, languid, languorous, limp, makeshift, out of gas, powerless, prostrate, puny, rickety, rocky, rotten, senile, shaky, sickly, sluggish, spent, spindly, supine, tender, torpid, uncertain, undependable, unsound, unsteady, unsubstantial, wasted, wavering, weakened, weakly, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | firm, potent, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | softening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relaxing |
| Synonyms: | assuasive, crumbly, demulcent, ductile, emollient, emulsive, flaccid, friable, lenient, lenitive, malleable, mitigatory, mollescent, mollient, mollifying, pianissimo, pliable |
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