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languid
[ lang-gwid ]
adjective
- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow:
a languid manner.
- lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent.
Synonyms: spiritless
- drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint.
Synonyms: exhausted, weary, feeble, weak
Antonyms: vigorous
languid
/ ˈlæŋɡwɪd /
adjective
- without energy or spirit
- without interest or enthusiasm
- sluggish; inactive
Derived Forms
- ˈlanguidly, adverb
- ˈlanguidness, noun
Other Words From
- lan·guid·ly adverb
- lan·guid·ness noun
- un·lan·guid adjective
- un·lan·guid·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of languid1
Example Sentences
Add that to the Yale Budget Lab’s estimate of more than 5 percent inflation from the more extreme versions of Trump’s tariff scenarios, and you have the recipe for an inflationary spiral that would make post-pandemic price increases look like a gentle hill that we climbed happily together on a languid summer afternoon.
Elsewhere, the mood of the set was celebratory and very much alive: filled with fan favourites and greatest hits, from the languid heartbreak of Pictures of You to the poppier sounds of Inbetween Days and Just Like Heaven.
“I thought that it had very little music and was somewhat languid. I feel my score will allow viewers to bypass the over-the-top antics of those early sound films from the 1930s, and concentrate on the great characters that inform the movie.”
However, the languid England opener did not let it affect her and brought up a first half-century at a World Cup – and her first fifty in 11 innings - off 30 balls by whipping Katherine Fraser behind square for four.
Burr’s regular guy contempt for Maher’s languid insistence that he knows more than everyone else makes other segments watchable.
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