languid

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  1. adjective Lacking energy or vitality; weak: a languid wave of the hand.
  2. adjective Showing little or no spirit or animation; listless: a languid mood.
  3. adjective Lacking vigor or force; slow: languid breezes.

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  • The cold makes me languid, as heat is apt to make everybody; but I am not unwell, and keep up the fire and the thoughts of you. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
  • Yet my hand is often languid, and my heart is slow. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • Russians being so languid, and Saxony fallen into such a perilous predicament. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • It would be, I then fancy, that stimulation which my capricious, languid, and languescent study needs. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • Their movements were languid, although they appeared to be working with haste. —  HOTHOUSE
 

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dreamy ·  listless ·  lazy ·  sleepy ·  gentle ·  feeble ·  sullen ·  sad ·  placid ·  careless ·  sluggish ·  sensual
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French languide, from Latin languidus, from languēre, to be languid; see slēg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French languide = Spanish lánguido = Portuguese Italian languido, from Latin languidus, faint, listless, from languere, be faint or listless: see languish.
  2. apparently a corruption of languet.
 

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/ˈlæŋgwɪd/
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