'Languid' definitions:
Definition of 'languid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous]
Definition of 'Languid'
From: GCIDE
- Languid \Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " --Armstrong. [1913 Webster]
- Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid." --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. [1913 Webster]
- Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. --Keats. [1913 Webster]
- Their idleness, aimless flirtations 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'languid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyant,
- aloof,
- ambling,
- anemic,
- anesthetized,
- apathetic,
- asthenic,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bloodless,
- bored,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- cautious,
- chicken,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- comatose,
- cowardly,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- dead,
- debilitated,
- deliberate,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- disinterested,
- doped,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- dozy,
- dreamy,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drowsy,
- drugged,
- drugged with sleep,
- dull,
- easy,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- etiolated,
- exanimate,
- fagged,
- faint,
- fainting,
- faintish,
- faltering,
- fatigued,
- feeble,
- feeling faint,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flagging,
- flat,
- floppy,
- foot-dragging,
- footsore,
- foul,
- frazzled,
- gentle,
- gone,
- good and tired,
- gradual,
- groggy,
- gutless,
- half asleep,
- halting,
- heartless,
- heavy,
- heavy with sleep,
- heavy-eyed,
- hebetudinous,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- hopeless,
- idle,
- imbecile,
- impassive,
- impotent,
- in a stupor,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inanimate,
- indifferent,
- indolent,
- inert,
- insouciant,
- jaded,
- lackadaisical,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- Laodicean,
- latent,
- lazy,
- leaden,
- leisurely,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- limber,
- limp,
- limping,
- listless,
- logy,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- moderate,
- moribund,
- napping,
- narcoleptic,
- narcose,
- narcotized,
- narcous,
- nerveless,
- nodding,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- Olympian,
- oscitant,
- out of it,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pithless,
- pluckless,
- poking,
- poky,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- ready to drop,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- resigned,
- rubbery,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- sapless,
- sated,
- sauntering,
- sedated,
- sedentary,
- seedy,
- shuffling,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- sleep-drowned,
- sleep-drunk,
- sleep-filled,
- sleep-swollen,
- sleepful,
- 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,
- slumberous,
- slumbery,
- smoldering,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- snoozy,
- soft,
- somnolent,
- soporific,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- staggering,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standing,
- static,
- stoic,
- strengthless,
- stretchy,
- strolling,
- stultified,
- stupefied,
- stuporose,
- stuporous,
- supine,
- suspended,
- tame,
- tentative,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toddling,
- toilworn,
- torpid,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unaroused,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- unhardened,
- unhurried,
- uninterested,
- unnerved,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- unstrung,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- waddling,
- wan,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilting,
- withdrawn,
- world-weary,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- yawning,
- yawny