What does languid mean?

Definitions for languid
ˈlæŋ gwɪdlan·guid

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. LANGUIDadjective

    Etymology: languidus, Latin.

    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.

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

ChatGPT

  1. languid

    Languid refers to a state of feeling slow, relaxed, or lacking in energy, often in a pleasant way. It can also imply weakness or faintness caused by illness, fatigue, or lack of enthusiasm.

Webster Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  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. languiduslanguēre, to be weak.]

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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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