Limp

Definition: Limp

Limp

Adjective

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".

2. Not firm; "wilted lettuce".

Noun

1. The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.

Verb

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

2. Proceed slowly or with difficulty; "the boat limped into the harbor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "limp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Limp

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Softness

Yielding. Verb: flabby, limp, flimsy.

Weakness

Verb: be weak; Adjective: drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave.

Crosswords: Limp

He look more like a limp noodle to me. Hey (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Boss' dick got to stay limp, right (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.)

Big guy with a limp. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France)

On Father's Day, I used to limp for him. (A Chorus Line; writing credit: Nicholas Dante; James Kirkwood Jr.)

You know, when I say impotent, I don't mean merely limp. When I say impotent, I mean I've lost even my desire to work (The Hospital; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Limp Bizkit is rockin' the set (Take A Look Around; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

The Man with the Limp (1923)

Limp (1999)

Break Stuff (performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

My Way (performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

N 2 gether now (performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Re-Arranged (performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Rollin' (performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

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Books

• All-Round Cowboys with a Texas Limp (reference)

• Limp Bizkit (reference)

• Limp Bizkit / Significant Other (reference)

• Limp Bizkit 2003 Calendar (reference)

• New Testament New Revised Standard Version Slimline Rs85bg Burgundy Limp Deluxe: Burgundy Bonded Leather (Deluxe) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Education Authorities Directory And Annual - Limp Sewn (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Limp Bizkit: Poop (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Trib Limp Bizkit: Mutated Manipulated Translated (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This being appeared to limp.

The tablecloth was damp and limp.

Tom brought out his bag of tobacco, a limp gray rag by now, with a little damp tobacco dust in the bottom of it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "limp": go limp ♦ limp behind ♦ make limp ♦ walk with a limp. Additional references.

Beginning with "limp": limp-brimmed, limp-dicked, limp-limbed, limp-wristed.

Ending with "limp": glove-limp.

Albanian

i squllur (flabby), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding), eci me mundim (trudge), çaloj (halt, hobble), çalim (hitch, hobble, lameness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مترهل (flabby, flaccid, loppy, washy), ‏لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), ‏تقدم ببطء (crawl, inch), ‏ترنح (beat about the bush, falter, feel groggy, grogginess, halt, lurch, quiver, reel, rock, roll, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, titubation, totter, walk with a wobble, waver, weave, welter), ‏عرج (call, cripple, halt, hobble, lameness, zigzag), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ‏إرتخاء (laxity, limpness, resolution, sluggishness), ‏رخو (flabby, flaccid, lax, loose, quaggy, slack, sluggish, soft), ‏ظلع (limping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увиснал (floppy, loose, pendulous), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), куцане (dot and go one, hobble, lameness), куцам (hobble, hop, hop about, hopple, stump along), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), накуцване (hitch), накуцвам (dot and go one, hitch, tread), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked). (various references)

Chinese 

蹩 , 蹣 , 软绵绵, 跚 , 癱軟 (weak). (various references)

Czech

skleslý (broody, cheerless, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, downcast, down-hearted, drooping), schlíplý (crestfallen, crest-fallen), ohebný (amenable, elastic, flexible, floppy, limber, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple, yielding), nepevný (infirm, unsettled, unsteady), malátný (jaded, languid, languorous, lethargic, weary), kulhat (hobble, hopple), kulhání. (various references)

Danish

halte (be crippled, be lame). (various references)

Dutch

mank lopen (limping), kreupel lopen (limping), hinken (claudication, limping). (various references)

Esperanto

lami. (various references)

Faeroese

halta. (various references)

Farsi 

لنگیدن (Clop, Halt, Hobble, Lag, Stagger), لنگی (Lag), لنگ (Cripple), سکته داشتن , عمل لنگیدن , شلیدن (Hobble), شل (Baggy, Knockkneed, Lax, Loose, Ramshackle, Slack). (various references)

Finnish

ontua (be lame, halt, walk lame). (various references)

French

boiter. (various references)

German

hinken (be clumsy, be inappropriate, be inapt, halt, hobble, walk with a limp), schlaff (baggy, drooping, exhausted, flabbily, flabby, flaccid, flaccidly, floppily, floppy, lax, limply, listless, loose, shattered, slack, slacky, soft, torpid, worn out), lahmen (be lame, walk lamely), humpeln (hobble, walk with a limp). (various references)

Greek 

κουτσαίνω (hobble), χωλαίνω (halt, hobble). (various references)

Hebrew 

לדדות (hop, skip), לצלוע (be lame, halt), תשוש (all in, exhausted, flagging, frail, jaded, limping, overwrought, played out, weak), רפוי (cure, flabby, healing, indemnity, limping, loose, medication, relaxed, slack, therapy), רפה (feeble, flabby, flaccid, languid, lax, limping, loose, slack, soft, weak), צליעה (dysbasia, halting, limping). (various references)

Hungarian

sántítás (hobble, lameness, limping), puha (downy, feathery, flossy, mellow, mushy, slack, sloppy, smooth, soft, spongy, tender), bicegés (halt, hitch, hobble, limping, wabble, wobble). (various references)

Indonesian

timpang. (various references)

Italian

zoppicare (be shaky, be weak, halt, hobble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

柔らかい (soft, tender). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐったり (completely exhausted, dead tired, senseless), ぐにゃぐにゃ (flabby, flexible, soft), ぐんにゃり (enervated), ふにゃふにゃ (soft), やりこい (soft, tender), やわらかい (soft, tender), やわらか (gentle, meek, soft, subdued, tender), はこう (imbalance, unfavorable progress, wave height). (various references)

Korean 

맥빠진. (various references)

Manx

shooyl dy croobagh, shooyl dy baccagh (hobbling), lheim (bounce, bound, buck, embrace, flush, hop, jump, leap, leaping, lope, pounce, spring, start, tup; jumping, vault), croobid (deformity, lameness), bog (callow, callow of youth, easy, flabby, loose, loose of cough, moist, pulpy, slack, soft, soft-hearted, tender), baccid (impediment, lameness). (various references)

Norwegian

slapp (flabby, floppy, lax), halting, halte. (various references)

Pig Latin

implay.(various references)

Portuguese

coxear (cripple, hobble, lame). (various references)

Romanian

nescrobit, neputincios (helpless, impotent, impuissant, incapable, infirm, nerveless, palsied, shiftless, silly, slight), mototolit, moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), merge şchiopãtând, flasc (flabby, flaccid, lax, soft), fãrã vlagã (amort, bloodless, flabby, flat, inert, languid, languidly, limply), şchiopãtat (lameness), şchiopãtare (hobble), şchiopãta (cripple, founder, halt, hobble, stump). (various references)

Russian 

слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slack, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy), хромота (lameness, limping), хромать (dot and go one, have a limp, hobble, limped), мягкий (balmy, bland, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, meek, mellow, mild, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding), прихрамывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

labav (languorous, lax, loose, remiss, slack, unfixed, untight), opušten (relaxed, untight), mlitav (flabby, lackadaisical, languorous, listless, loose, remiss), hramati (hobble), hramanje (hobble), ćopati, ćopanje, šepati, šantati. (various references)

Spanish

cojear (hobble, hobble along, hop), cojera (hobble, lameness), claudicar (falter). (various references)

Swedish

halta (be crippled, be lame), mjuk (gentle, Pappy, pillowy, pulpy, smooth, soft, squashy, tender, yielding). (various references)

Thai

เหนื่อยอ่อน, เดินโขยกเขยก, อ่อน (milden), ปวกเปียก. (various references)

Turkish

aksamak (halt, have a hitch, hinder, hitch, hobble). (various references)

Turkmen 

agsamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, lax, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), кульгати (cripple, hobble), кульгавість (lameness), м'який (cat-like, cottony, creamy, delicate, downy, genial, gentle, kindly, melodious, mild, mushy, non-rigid, pulpy, soft, yielding). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu khí lực, tật đi khập khiễng, mềm (cushiony, ductile, flabby, flaccid, limber, loose, mushy, soft, supple, supply, yielding), ủ rũ ẻo lả. (various references)

Welsh

lliprynnaidd (flabby), llipa (flabby), llibin (awkward, clumsy, feeble), honcian (holt, waggle), hercian (bob, hobble, hop), herc (hop). (various references)

claudamus, claudat, claude, claudent, claudentur, clauderetur, claudet, claudetur, claudeturque, claudi, claudicabat, claudicantem, claudicatis, claudicaverunt, claudit, clauditis, clausa, clausae, clausas, clauserat, clauserit, clausero, clauserunt, clausi, clausis, clausisset, clausit, clausitque, clauso, clausos, clausum, clausus, claususque, clude, cludendi, cludentur, cludere, cludit, cluserit, cluserunt, cluseruntque, clusit, cluso, clusum, clusuris, mortua, mortuae, mortuam, mortuaque, mortui, mortuique, mortuis, mortuisque, mortuo, mortuorum, mortuos, mortuum, mortuus, mortuusque. (various references)

lemphealt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "limp": limpa, limpas, limped, limper, limpers, limpest, limpet, limpets, limpid, limpidities, limpidity, limpidly, limpidness, limpidnesses, limping, limpkin, limpkins, limply, limpness, limpnesses, limps, limpsey, limpsier, limpsiest, limpsy. (additional references)

Words ending with "limp": blimp. (additional references)

Words containing "limp": blimpish, blimpishly, blimpishness, blimpishnesses, blimps, glimpse, glimpsed, glimpser, glimpsers, glimpses, glimpsing, palimpsest, palimpsests, slimpsier, slimpsiest, slimpsy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Limp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flimp, ilamp, ilm, ip, Laml, lampi, Lampo, lemp, Lempa, Lidmi, lil, limpa, Limpac, limpo, limr, lirp, lism, lmi, lmip, Lmpa, lomp, Lumpa, Lym, lymp, Olimpa, pimpp, zimp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: imp, lip, mil.

-2 letters: li, mi, pi.

+1 letter: blimp, impel, imply, limpa, limps, milpa.

+2 letters: blimps, dimple, dimply, impala, impale, impels, jimply, limpas, limped, limper, limpet, limpid, limply, limpsy, lipoma, magilp, megilp, milpas, pileum, pimple, pimply, prelim, primal, primly, rimple, simple, simply, wimple.

+3 letters: amplify, bumpily, campily, compile, complin, crimple, dimpled, dimples, diploma, dumpily, emptily, glimpse, impalas, impaled, impaler, impales, impanel, impearl, imperil, implant, implead, implied, implies, implode, implore, impulse, jumpily, lamping, lampion, lempira, limpers, limpest, limpets, limping, limpkin, limpsey, lipomas, lumpier, lumpily, lumping, lumpish, magilps, maniple, maplike, megilph, megilps, milksop, misplan, misplay, mispled, oilcamp, omphali, optimal, pallium, palmier, palming, palmist, pilgrim, pimpled, pimples, plasmic, plasmid, plasmin, plenism, plimsol, plumbic, plumier, pluming, polemic, prelims, primely, primula, psalmic, rimpled, rimples, simpler, simples, simplex, slimpsy, ulpanim, upclimb, wimpled, wimples.