LANGUID

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison.

2.
a.

Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid." Bentley.

3.
a.

Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. Keats. Their idleness, aimless and languid airs. W. Black.


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