Thesaurus: languid

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1. a. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
2. a. Slow in progress; tardy.
3. a. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.
4. adj. lacking spirit or liveliness
5. 1. 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. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid." Bentley. 3. 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. Syn. -- Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless. -- Lan"guid*ly, adv. -- Lan"guid*ness, n.
6. j:100 s lacking spirit or liveliness