Definitions for languid
ˈlæŋ gwɪdlan·guid

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorousadjective

   lacking spirit or liveliness

   "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"

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1. languidadjective

   Lacking enthusiasm, energy, or strength; drooping or flagging from weakness, fatigue, or lack of energy; indisposed to exertion; sluggish; relaxed: as, languid movements; languid breathing.

2. languidadjective

   Heavy; dull; dragging; wanting spirit or animation; listless; apathetic.

3. Etymology: From languidus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LANGUIDadjective

   Etymology: languidus, Latin.

   1. Faint; weak; feeble.

   Whatever renders the motion of the blood languid, disposeth to an acid acrimony; what accelerates the motion of the blood, disposeth to an alkaline acrimony. Arbuthnot.

   No space can be assigned so vast, but still a larger may be imagined; no motion so swift or languid, but a greater velocity or slowness may still be conceived. Richard Bentley, Serm.

   2. Dull; heartless.

   I’ll hasten to my troops,
   And fire their languid souls with Cato’s virtue. Addison.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Languidadjective

   drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull

2. Languidadjective

   slow in progress; tardy

3. Languidadjective

   promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Languid

   lang′gwid, adj. slack or feeble: flagging: exhausted: sluggish: spiritless.—adj. Languesc′ent, growing languid.—adv. Lang′uidly.—n. Lang′uidness. [Fr.,—L. languidus—languēre, to be weak.]

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1. lauding

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of languid in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of languid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of languid in a Sentence

1. Edmund Burke:

   In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

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