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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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... dew Tracked the hares, and followed through Sunny moor or meadow: This dog only crept and crept Next a languid cheek that slept, Sharing ...

— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various

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— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas

... chief of the Iceni, who cost us a year's hard work and some twelve hundred men before we captured him. Petronius has written so strongly to Nero in his favour that his life has been spared, and he has been placed in the school of Scopus;" and the languid young Romans, looking at Beric's height and proportions, no longer wondered at the trouble that the Roman legions had had in overcoming the resistance of a mere handful of barbarians. Beric on his part was by no means surprised at the appearance of these young courtiers. He ...

— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

... magnificence she exhibited in palace and pageant the superb products of labour which others had executed. Without tapestries her big stone palaces would have lacked the note of soft luxury, without coloured hangings her balconies would have been but dull settings for languid ladies, and her water-parades would have missed the wondrous colour that the Venetian loves. Yet to her rich market flowed the product of Europe in such exhaustless stream that she became connoisseur-consumer only, nor felt the need of serious producing. Workshops there were, from time to ...

— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

... neighbor drove my friend over to the beautiful farm of the good genius on whose kindly offices he had now fixed his languid hopes. I need not say what the landscape was in mid-August, or how, as they drew near the farm, the air was enriched with the breath of vast orchards of early apples,—apples that no forced fingers rude shatter from their stems, ...

— Buying a Horse • William Dean Howells

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