Languid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Languid \Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint
     or languid: cf. F. languide. See {Languish}.]
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     1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to
        exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. "
        Languid, powerless limbs. " --Armstrong.


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              Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.
                                                    --Addison.
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     2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid."
        --Bentley.
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     3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a
        languid day.
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              Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. --Keats.
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              Their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid
              airs.                                 --W. Black.
  
     Syn: Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary;
          listless; heavy; dull; heartless. -- {Lan"guid*ly}, adv.
          -- {Lan"guid*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  languid
       adj : lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a
             languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot
             languorous afternoon" [syn: {dreamy}, {lackadaisical},
             {languorous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  247 Moby Thesaurus words for "languid":
     Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, anesthetized,
     apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, bored,
     cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken, circumspect, claudicant,
     comatose, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dead,
     debilitated, deliberate, desensitized, detached, disinterested,
     doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsy,
     drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, easy, effete, enervated,
     enfeebled, etiolated, exanimate, fagged, faint, fainting, faintish,
     faltering, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flabby, flaccid,
     flagging, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, footsore, foul, frazzled,
     gentle, gone, good and tired, gradual, groggy, gutless,
     half asleep, halting, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep,
     heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle,
     imbecile, impassive, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance,
     in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert,
     insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languishing, languorous, latent,
     lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp,
     limping, listless, logy, lumbering, lumpish, lustless, marrowless,
     moderate, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized,
     narcous, nerveless, nodding, nonchalant, numb, numbed, oscitant,
     out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, pluckless, poking, poky,
     pooped, powerless, ready to drop, relaxed, reluctant, resigned,
     rubbery, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sapless, sated, sauntering,
     sedated, sedentary, seedy, shuffling, sinewless, slack,
     sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful,
     sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses,
     slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
     slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
     slow-stepped, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, slumbery,
     smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, snoozy, soft, somnolent,
     soporific, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, staggering, stagnant,
     stagnating, standing, static, stoic, strengthless, stretchy,
     strolling, stultified, stupefied, stuporose, stuporous, supine,
     suspended, tame, tentative, tired, tired-winged, toddling,
     toilworn, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike,
     unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhardened, unhurried,
     uninterested, unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unstrung,
     vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak,
     weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed,
     weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, withdrawn,
     world-weary, worn, worn-down, yawning, yawny