'Languorous' definitions:
Definition of 'languorous'
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 'Languorous'
From: GCIDE
- Languorous \Lan"guor*ous\, a. [From Languor: cf. F. langoureux.] Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [Obs. or Poetic] [1913 Webster]
- Whom late I left in languorous constraint. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'languorous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyant,
- ambling,
- anemic,
- apathetic,
- asthenic,
- benumbed,
- blase,
- bloodless,
- bored,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- cautious,
- chicken,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- cowardly,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- dead,
- debilitated,
- deliberate,
- dilatory,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dull,
- easy,
- effete,
- enervated,
- etiolated,
- exanimate,
- faineant,
- faint,
- faintish,
- faltering,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flagging,
- flat,
- floppy,
- foot-dragging,
- foul,
- gentle,
- gone,
- gradual,
- groggy,
- gutless,
- halting,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inanimate,
- indolent,
- indulged,
- inert,
- jaded,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languishing,
- latent,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leaden,
- leisurely,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- limber,
- limp,
- limping,
- listless,
- logy,
- loose,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- moderate,
- moribund,
- nerveless,
- numb,
- pampered,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pithless,
- poking,
- poky,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sated,
- sauntering,
- sedentary,
- shuffling,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- 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,
- smoldering,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- soft,
- somnolent,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- staggering,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standing,
- static,
- strengthless,
- strolling,
- stultified,
- supine,
- suspended,
- tame,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- torpid,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unaroused,
- unhardened,
- unhurried,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- waddling,
- wan,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weary,
- world-weary