languid

Speech parts

1. languid - Noun

2. languid - Adjective

3. languid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Slow in progress; tardy.

Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

heavy weak dull faint feeble weary dreamy lackadaisical listless languorous wan largo lagan slack sleepyhead
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Antonyms

husky volant pert strong potential active
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Phrases with the word

be languid more languid

Anagrams

lauding dualing Gauldin

Examples

As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold. Jonathan Swift

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race I love the languid patience of thy face. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you The languid strings do scarcely move The sound is forced, the notes are few. William Blake

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature. William Cowper

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. Francis Parkman

How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. John Armstrong

Close letter words and terms

languescent languet languette languidity languidly languidness