limply

1. 1.

   without rigidity

   “the body was hanging limply from the tree”

Questions about limply

What does limply mean?

limply means "without rigidity".

How many syllables are in limply?

limply has 2 syllables and divides as lim-ply under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is limply a common word?

limply is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.