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languid
[ lang-gwid ]
adjective
- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow:
a languid manner.
- lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent.
Synonyms: spiritless
- drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint.
Synonyms: exhausted, weary, feeble, weak
Antonyms: vigorous
languid
/ ˈlæŋɡwɪd /
adjective
- without energy or spirit
- without interest or enthusiasm
- sluggish; inactive
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Derived Forms
- ˈlanguidness, noun
- ˈlanguidly, adverb
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Other Words From
- lan·guid·ly adverb
- lan·guid·ness noun
- un·lan·guid adjective
- un·lan·guid·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of languid1
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Example Sentences
All night long they struggle; nobody knows the name of the harsh light that keeps slowly opening like a languid fruit.
In or out of uniform his motion is languid, his voice relaxed and mellifluous, his movements deliberate, confident.
Just a few days ago, India was in a relaxed, almost languid, state of mind.
He was more finely bred than any American she had met, with his bone-china accent, willowy height and languid wit.
Yes, there is a sense of it being still, even languid in that film.
Maria Theresa held it in her hand, and looked on it a few seconds with a languid smile.
Richard would fain have moralised and comforted, but she felt as if she knew it all before, and heard with languid attention.
Only time, he said to Mrs. Ashton—she would be all right in time; the summer heat was making her languid.
The votaries of fashion and gayety are they to whom existence grows languid and life a burden.
She raised her languid eyes to her child, but her palsied tongue could speak no word of tenderness.
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