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adjective

Languid adj.

Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " "Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue."

Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid."

Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. "Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon." "Their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid airs."

Synonyms: Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless.

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Etymology of 'Languid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Languid" Quotes from Famous Books

... gone out in rain, and though the sun now shone brightly from a cloudless sky, the streams were swollen and the road was heavy. The ponderous coach and the four black horses made slow progress. The creeping pace, the languid warmth of the afternoon, the scent of flowering trees, the ceaseless singing of redbird, catbird, robin, and thrush, made it drowsy in the forest. In the midst of an agreeable dissertation upon May Day sports ...

— Audrey • Mary Johnston

... military science which includes the construction of rafts and contrivances of the like sort—and I should have been very proud indeed if I could have carried my party and my baggage across by dint of any idea gathered from Sir Howard Douglas or Robinson Crusoe. But we were all faint and languid from want of food, and besides, there were no materials. Higher up the river there were bushes and river plants, but nothing like timber; and the cord with which my baggage was tied to the pack-saddles amounted altogether to a very ...

— Eothen • A. W. Kinglake

... lay down a rule without introducing troublesome qualifications and reserves. Yet he probably held that his postulate was a close approximation to the facts. Looking at the actual state of things at the worst time of the poor-law, and seeing how small were the prospects of stirring the languid mind of the pauper to greater forethought, he thought that he might assume the constancy of an element which varied so slowly. The indifference of the Ricardo school generally to historical inquiry had led them no doubt ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen

... of cleanliness and industry. The woman and children had a look of health, but the man was evidently the subject of some wasting disease. His form was light, his face thin and rather pale, and his languid eyes deeply sunken. He was very far from being the able-bodied man Mr. Prescott had expected to find. As the latter stepped into the miserable room where they were gathered, the light of expectation, mingled with the shadows of mute suffering, came into their countenances. ...

— Home Lights and Shadows • T. S. Arthur

... and left the room with the languid air of one thoroughly tired. As the young Countess stood there watching his retreat and disappearance, her dainty little fist clenched, and her eyebrows came together, bringing to her handsome face the determined expression which marked the countenances of ...

— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr

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