languid

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lan·guid

(lăng′gwĭd)

adj.

a. Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; listless: feeling languid from a fever.

b. Slow-moving or weak in force: languid breezes.

2. Showing little or no vitality or animation: languid prose.

3. Characterized by or conducive to indolence or inactivity: a languid afternoon.

[French languide, from Latin languidus, from languēre, to be languid; see slēg- in Indo-European roots.]

lan′guid·ly adv.

lan′guid·ness n.

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languid

(ˈlæŋɡwɪd)

adj

1. without energy or spirit

2. without interest or enthusiasm

3. sluggish; inactive

[C16: from Latin languidus, from languēre to languish]

ˈlanguidly adv

ˈlanguidness n

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lan•guid

(ˈlæŋ gwɪd)

adj.

1. lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner.

2. lacking in spirit or interest; listless.

3. drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint.

[1590–1600; < Latin languidus. See languish, -id⁴]

lan′guid•ly, adv.

lan′guid•ness, n.

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Adj.

languid - lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"

lackadaisical, languorous, dreamy

lethargic - deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"

languid

adjective inactive, lazy, indifferent, lethargic, weary, sluggish, inert, uninterested, listless, unenthusiastic, languorous, lackadaisical, torpid, spiritless He's a large languid man with a round and impassive face.
strong, active, vigorous, energetic, tireless, alive and kicking

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languid

adjective

Lacking energy and vitality or showing such a lack:

flagging, lackadaisical, languorous, leaden, limp, listless, lymphatic, spiritless.

Translations

خافِت، هامِد، ضَعيف

malátný

sløv

matt

apathique languissant

magnlaus, òreyttur

languido languire languore fiacchezza

apsunkęs

apātisksgurdensrāms

dermansızhalsiz

倦怠的无精打采的

languid

[ˈlæŋgwɪd] ADJ → lánguido

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

languid

[ˈlæŋgwɪd] adj [person, manner] → languide

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

languid

adj → träge; gesture → müde, matt; manner → lässig, gelangweilt; walk → lässig, schlendernd; voice → müde

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

languid

[ˈlæŋgwɪd] adj (liter) (graceful, affected) → languido/a; (indolent) → fiacco/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

languid

(ˈlӕŋgwid) adjective

without liveliness or energy.

ˈlanguidly adverb

languid

a. lánguido-a, débil, flojo-a; decaído-a.

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Ah I ever I behold Thy dreamy, passionate eyes, Blue as the languid skies

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When to the lake's sun-dimpled marge the bright procession wends, The languid lilies raise their heads as though to greet their friends; When down the river-banks they roam, The white moon-lady leads them home.

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Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a plain.

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Holding a clear recollection of these languid easterly sighs rippling unexpectedly against the run of the smooth swell, with no other warning than a ten-minutes' calm and a queer darkening of the coast-line, I cannot think, without a gasp of professional awe, of that fateful moment.

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Pondering over a new form of theatrical attraction for the coming winter season, Francis had determined to revive the languid public taste for the ballet by means of an entertainment of his own invention, combining dramatic interest with dancing.

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Hence the one provokes and incites the most languid appetite, and the other turns and palls that which is the sharpest and keenest.

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How languid their conversation the last evening of their being together!

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Rosamond had been prepared for Will's visit, and she received him with a languid coldness which Lydgate accounted for by her nervous exhaustion, of which he could not suppose that it had any relation to Will.

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When the swords ran among one another like red-spotted serpents, then did our fathers become fond of life; the sun of every peace seemed to them languid and lukewarm, the long peace, however, made them ashamed.

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The man's mind is not so well balanced but that he bores my Lady, who, after a languid effort to listen, or rather a languid resignation of herself to a show of listening, becomes distraught and falls into a contemplation of the fire as if it were her fire at Chesney Wold, and she had never left it.

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He gave, at any rate, like a convalescent slightly fatigued, a languid shake of his head.

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'No - better - better!' he panted, trembling, and retaining her hand as if he needed its support, while his large blue eyes wandered timidly over her; the hollowness round them transforming to haggard wildness the languid expression they once possessed.