Meaning of LANGUID
| Pronunciation: | | 'langgwid
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" |
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| | Synonyms: | | dreamy, lackadaisical, languorous, lethargic, unergetic |
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| | Definition: | | \Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint
or languid: cf. F. languide. See {Languish}.]
1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to
exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. ``
Languid, powerless limbs. '' --Armstrong.
Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.
--Addison.
2. Slow in progress; tardy. `` No motion so swift or
languid.'' --Bentley.
3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a
languid day.
Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. --Keats.
Their idleness, aimless 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, sleepful, sleeping, sleep-swollen, 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, snaillike, snail-paced, 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 |
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