Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected by languor; exhibiting languor; languid.
  • Dull; tedious; wearisome; inducing languor.
  • Suggestive of languor; seductive: as, languorous eyes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Obs. or Poetic Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.

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  • adjective lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking spirit or liveliness

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Examples

  • They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow cornfields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow.

    The Wind in the Willows 1908

  • They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow corn-fields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow.

    The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow cornfields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow.

    The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • A solo for Daniel Proietto, the eerie work recalled languorous images of Nijinsky (it was inspired by his drawings and paintings).

    NYT > Home Page By GIA KOURLAS 2010

  • If I had the same kind of languorous pleasure in writing that my younger brother has or that, say, Eudora Welty has, who just gets up with a light in the eye, thinking, "My God, this is a day in which I write," then I could answer your question with a greater sense of hedonism.

    Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist 1993

  • Lelord - the 57-year-old writer whose own smile exudes a kind of languorous wisdom - would never have been able to write his bestselling French novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, at such a tender age.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Trip-hop is simply a kind of languorous pop music that learned in general from hip-hop, but also from lots of other types of experimental and even academic music that you don’t need real instruments to make music.

    Disquiet » Electronica for Dunderheads 1999

  • There is the obvious connection, as I see it, to lifestyle and aspiration, but whereas Nascar says fast food to me, Mercedes Benz says "slower" food -- hence the all-star line up of languorous dishes and libations.

    Rozanne Gold: Fast Track: Cars and Food Rozanne Gold 2011

  • There is the obvious connection, as I see it, to lifestyle and aspiration, but whereas Nascar says fast food to me, Mercedes Benz says "slower" food -- hence the all-star line up of languorous dishes and libations.

    Rozanne Gold: Fast Track: Cars and Food Rozanne Gold 2011

  • There is the obvious connection, as I see it, to lifestyle and aspiration, but whereas Nascar says fast food to me, Mercedes Benz says "slower" food -- hence the all-star line up of languorous dishes and libations.

    Rozanne Gold: Fast Track: Cars and Food Rozanne Gold 2011

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  • this word has such a more lovely connotation than the silly dictionary meaning above.

    languorous means a lazy afternoon with a cocktail and a drawl. languorous means laying about with no pants on. languorous means the delicious feeling of slack felt all through your body.

    March 21, 2008

  • "...smoothing her skirt with languorous fingers." Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

    October 17, 2010