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lan⋅guid

  [lang-gwid]
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–adjective
1. lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner.
2. lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent.
3. drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint.
Origin:
1590–1600; < L languidus faint. See languish, -id 4

Related forms:
lan⋅guid⋅ly, adverb
lan⋅guid⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. inactive, inert, sluggish, torpid. 2. spiritless. 3. weak, feeble, weary, exhausted, debilitated.

Antonyms:
1. active, energetic. 3. vigorous.
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lan·guid   (lāng'gwĭd)   
adj.  
  1. Lacking energy or vitality; weak: a languid wave of the hand.
  2. Showing little or no spirit or animation; listless: a languid mood.
  3. Lacking vigor or force; slow: languid breezes.

[French languide, from Latin languidus, from languēre, to be languid; see slēg- in Indo-European roots.]
lan'guid·ly adv., lan'guid·ness n.
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Languid

Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.]

1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " --Armstrong.

Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. --Addison.

2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid." --Bentley.

3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. --Keats.

Their idleness, aimless 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : languid
Spanish: lánguido,
German: matt,
Japanese: ものうい
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languid 
1597, from L. languidus "faint, listless," from languere "be weak or faint," from PIE base *(s)leg- "to be slack" (see lax).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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