Languorous

3 definitions found

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

  Languorous \Lan"guor*ous\, a. [From {Languor}: cf. F.
     langoureux.]
     Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by
     languor. [Obs. or Poetic]
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           Whom late I left in languorous constraint. --Spenser.
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           To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw
           The sting from pain.                     --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  167 Moby Thesaurus words for "languorous":
     abeyant, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blase,
     bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken,
     circumspect, claudicant, cowardly, crawling, creeping,
     creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, dilatory,
     dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, effete,
     enervated, etiolated, exanimate, faineant, faint, faintish,
     faltering, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy,
     foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gone, gradual, groggy, gutless,
     halting, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, idle, imbecile,
     impotent, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indolent,
     indulged, inert, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, languid,
     languishing, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic,
     lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, loose, lumbering,
     lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, nerveless, numb,
     pampered, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, poking, poky, pooped,
     powerless, relaxed, reluctant, rubbery, sapless, sated, sauntering,
     sedentary, shuffling, sinewless, slack, 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, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, soft, somnolent,
     spineless, spiritless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing,
     static, strengthless, strolling, stultified, supine, suspended,
     tame, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering,
     trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, unhardened, unhurried, unnerved,
     unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, weak, weakly,
     weary, world-weary