languid

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lan=guid

CIDE DICTIONARY

languid, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.].

•  Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.  Armstrong.  [1913 Webster]

  "Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue."  [1913 Webster]
•  Slow in progress; tardy.  Bentley.  [1913 Webster]
•  Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.  [1913 Webster]

  "Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon."  [1913 Webster]

  "Their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid airs."

Syn. -- Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

languid, adj.
1 lacking vigour; idle; inert; apathetic.
2 (of ideas etc.) lacking force; uninteresting.
3 (of trade etc.) slow-moving; sluggish.
4 faint; weak.

Derivative

languidly adv. languidness n.

Etymology

F languide or L languidus (as LANGUISH)

THESAURUS

languid

Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, anesthetized, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, desensitized, detached, disinterested, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, easy, effete, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exanimate, fagged, faint, fainting, faintish, faltering, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, footsore, foul, frazzled, gentle, gone, good and tired, gradual, groggy, gutless, half asleep, halting, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle, imbecile, impassive, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languishing, languorous, latent, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, lumbering, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nerveless, nodding, nonchalant, numb, numbed, oscitant, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, powerless, ready to drop, relaxed, reluctant, resigned, rubbery, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sapless, sated, sauntering, sedated, sedentary, seedy, shuffling, sinewless, slack, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, slumbery, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, snoozy, soft, somnolent, soporific, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stoic, strengthless, stretchy, strolling, stultified, stupefied, stuporose, stuporous, supine, suspended, tame, tentative, tired, tired-winged, toddling, toilworn, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhardened, unhurried, uninterested, unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, withdrawn, world-weary, worn, worn-down, yawning, yawny

ROGET THESAURUS

languid

Feebleness

N feebleness, feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid, colorless, enervated, proposing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy, sketchy, slight, careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent), slipshod, slipslop, inexact, puerile, childish, flatulent, rambling.

Inactivity

N inactivity, inaction, inertness, obstinacy, lull, quiescence, rust, rustiness, idleness, remissness, sloth, indolence, indiligence, dawdling, ergophobia, otiosity, dullness, languor, segnity, segnitude, lentor, sluggishness, procrastination, torpor, torpidity, torpescence, stupor, somnolence, drowsiness, nodding, oscitation, oscitancy, pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy, statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids, sleep, slumber, sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep, Morpheus, Somnus, coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore, hypnology, dull work, pottering, relaxation, Castle of Indolence, lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, torpedo, idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus, do- little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner, afternoon farmer, truant, bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone, lubber, lubbard, slow coach (slow, ), opium eater, lotus eater, slug, lag, sluggard, slugabed, slumberer, dormouse, marmot, waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus, inactive, motionless, unoccupied, unbusied, indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish, exanimate, soulless, listless, drony, dronish, lazy as Ludlam's dog, dilatory, laggard, lagging, slow, rusty, flagging, lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle, pottering, shilly-shally, sleeping asleep, fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep, in a sound sleep, sound as a top, dormant, comatose, in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus, sleepy, sleepful, dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical, somnifacient, statuvolent, statuvolic, heavy, heavy with sleep, napping, somnific, somniferous, soporous, soporific, soporiferous, hypnotic, balmy, dreamy, unawakened, unawakened, sedative, inactively, at leisure, the eyes begin to draw straws, bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease, better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay, idly busy rolls their world away, the mystery of folded sleep, the timely dew of sleep, thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep, tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.

Weakness

N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.

Insensibility

N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.

Slowness

N slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation, slackening, delay, claudication, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke, dawdle, slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial, slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, at a glacial pace.