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: lim-ply. The stress falls on "lim".

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.