languid
IPA: ɫˈæŋgwʌd
noun
- Synonym of languet (“a flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ”)
adjective
- Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
- Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
- Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
- Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
- Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
- Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
- Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
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Examples of "languid" in Sentences
- His quiet did not mark a languid heart.
- She is shown with a languid, sad expression.
- Call it languid even though I don't think it is.
- Displayed at right is the color languid lavender.
- Thanks for the image of the languid lady herself.
- The overall impression is both languid and wistful.
- In character, it is like the cat and somewhat languid.
- But some critics complain it's too languid and drawn out.
- Much of this can be attributed to Tom's languid performances.
- On the other hand, his paintings are never either languid or cold.
- Even in languid humid climes it is the season of matings and revolutions.
- After a backbench query about the AV referendum, Bercow rose up again and called another languid halt.
- He walked some turns backwards and forwards in his room; he recalled the languid form of the fainting wretch to his mind; he wept at the recollection of her tears.
- Tired and languid from the morning in the sun, she found herself thrilling to his touch and half-dreamily deciding that here was a man she could love, hands and all.
- I find it interesting that the review says the first half was 'languid' - I thought it was rushed and choppy .. the romance is more assumed than shown, which was too bad.
- They might work: but the vanity of spiritual perfection was tempted to disdain the exercise of manual labor; and the industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.
- The picture is full of magic; and the colour is truly a spirit dwelling on things and making them expressive to the spirit, for the delicate tones of grey, and green, and violet seem to convey to us the idea of languid sleep, and even the hawthorn-blossoms have lost their wonted brightness, and are more like the pale moonlight to which Shelley compared them, than the sheet of summer snow we see now in our English fields.