limp :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

v. proceed slowly or with difficulty; "the boat limped into the harbor"

v. walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"

adj. 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"

wilted

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

trip, stumble

v. miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"

dead, nonresilient

adj. lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"

inflexible

adj. incapable of being bent or deformed

springless

adj. lacking in elasticity or vitality; "went off with springless steps"

unresponsive

adj. (economics) slow to react to changing conditions: "an inelastic price structure"; "inelastic demand for a commodity"

addled

adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"

bad, spoilt, spoiled

adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

corrupt, tainted, putrid, decomposed, rotten

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

cold, old

adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

rotting, decomposing, putrescent

adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"

dry, hard

adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

flyblown

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

musty, moldy, mouldy

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

rancid

adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

crisp, firm

adj. pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed; "crisp carrot and celery sticks"; "a firm apple"; "crunchy lettuce"

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