Languid

Definition: Languid

Languid

Adjective

1. Lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "languid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Languid \Lan"guid\, adjective. [Latin expression languidus, from languere to be faint or languid: compare to the French expression languide. See Languish.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Languid

Feebleness

Adjective: 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.

Inactivity

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.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Slowness

Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial.

Weakness

Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.

Crosswords: Languid

Languid and bittersweet ("Deacon Blues"; performing artist: STEELY DAN)

Love's Languid Lure (1927)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Languid Love Lyrics (reference)

• The Languid Goat Is Always Thin: The World's Strangest Proverbs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Languid Kisses...Perfidious Caress [IMPORT] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

mospërfillës (cavalier, defiant, disdainful, flippant, impervious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, snooty, uninterested, unsympathetic), indiferent (impervious, indifferent, pococurante), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i këputur (all in, beaten, chivied, dead beat, flake out, tired, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتر الهمة (lymphatic), ‏فاتر (apathetic, chilly, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, frigid, half hearted, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, slack, spiritless, stagnant, tepid, unenthusiastic, unfriendly), ‏كسول (dull, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lumpish, passive, shiftless, slothful, slow, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, supine), ‏متخاذل (droopy, weak), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏بطىء (cumbersome, dilatory, heavy, indolent, lazy, lento, slow, slow motion, tardy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, long, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), замрял (easy), апатичен (apathetic, apathetical, inanimate, lethargic, listless, spiritless, torpid, vacant), безжизнен (breathless, dead, earthy, glassy, inanimate, insensate, lifeless, pithless, sapless, set, stone-dead, tuneless), безинтересен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, incurious, milk and water, mousey, sapless, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over), бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, leaden, leisurely, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, slow, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready), провлачен (drawn out, ropy). (various references)

Czech

mdlý (dull, faint, flat, pale, sapless, sick, sickly, torpid, vapid, wan, watery), malátný (jaded, languorous, lethargic, limp, weary). (various references)

Farsi 

سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), ضعیف (Anemic, Atonic, Infirm, Lean, Light, Puny, Pusillanimous, Rickety, Sappy, Shaky, Slack, Slender, Weak), خمار (Drunkard), اهسته (Gentle, Gradual, Indistinct, Light, Low, Slow), بی حال (Inactive, Lackadaisical, Slothful, Stolid). (various references)

Finnish

laimea (dull, indifferent, lukewarm, slack, weak), veltto (flaccid, grey weakfish, indolent, inert, limp, slack, squeteague, weakfish), väsynyt (decrepit, exhausted, fatigued, tired, tired out, weary, worn out), raukea (faint, fatigued). (various references)

French

languissant (languishing), langoureux (languishing, languorous), paresseux (lazy), indolent (lackadaisical, lazy), alangui (languished, languorous). (various references)

German

matt (checkmate, cloudy, dead, dim, dull, dullness, faint, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lame, languidly, limp, mat, mate, matt, opal, opaque, Pearl, slack, subdued, tired, vapid, wan, wanly, weak, weary). (various references)

Greek 

νωθρόσ (indolent, laggard, logy, lymphatic, poky, sluggardly, sluggish, stick in the mud), χαύνοσ (flaccid, languorous), άτονοσ (colorless, colourless, flaccid, lackadaisical, listless, nerveless, spiritless, toneless, unaccented). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר מרץ (languorous, lethargic), רפ�" (feeble, flabby, flaccid, lax, limp, limping, loose, slack, soft, weak). (various references)

Hungarian

lanyha (depressed, dull, slack, sluggish, stale, tepid), ernyedt (flabby, flaccid, floppy, lax, sloppy, swooned, swooning, to feel slack), bágyadt (faint, he is in low water, languorous, sickly, slack), vontatott (drawling, droning, halting, slack, slow, towed), unalmas (bald, boring, cut and dried, dry, dull, dusty, groaty, grotty, heavy, humdrum, insipid, muzzy, pokey, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, tedious, tiresome, tiring, witless), tunya (bovine, inactive, laggard, lazy, slack, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, stolid, torpid), színtelen (achromatic, bald, colorless, colourless, hueless, pale, sallow, toneless, white), rest (inert, slothful, sluggard, sluggish), pilledt (languorous), lassú mozgású, közönyös (apathetic, apathetical, cold, detached, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, pococurante, stolid, unconcerned, uninterested), indolens (slothful), egykedvű (impassive, imperturbable, lackadaisical, stolid), érdektelen (barren, disinterested, unconcerned, uninterested). (various references)

Indonesian

lesu (lack adaisical). (various references)

Italian

languido (faded, flabby, limp, stunted, weak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

物憂い (listless, melancholy, weary), � い (dull, feel heavy, sluggish), 気� い (listless), 気� るい (listless), 悩ましい (melancholy, seductive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なやましい (melancholy, seductive), ものうい (listless, melancholy, weary), け� るい (listless), � るい (dull, feel heavy, sluggish). (various references)

Manx

lhiastey (diffident, dilatory, idle, inactive, indolent, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, reluctant, remiss, slothful, workshy), lhiastagh (haggler, idle, inactive, indolent, latecomer, lethargic, lethargical, loath, moribund, remiss, slothful, sluggish), lambaneagh, feayr-chooishagh (apathetic, frigid, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, phlegmatic, self-possessed, unfeeling). (various references)

Norwegian

treg (dull, indolent, inert), sløv (blunt, dull). (various references)

Pig Latin

anguidlay

Portuguese

lento (blockish, dilatory, drowsy-head, dull, heavy, lagger, lagging, largo, lazy, Leo, plodding, ponderous, slack, slow, slowpoke, sluggish, stick in the mud, tardy), langoroso (languishing, laniard), lânguido (drowsy, flaccid, half and half, languishing, listlessness, wanton), frouxo (bleak, flaccid, floppy, free for all, incompact, lanolin, lax, loose, sloppy link), desanimado (broken down, cheerless, crestfallen, damp, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down, downfall, downhill, gasbag, hagridden, heavy-laden, hopeless, low, low-spirited, sorry, take heart), débil (broken, enervate, failure, faint, feeble, feebleminded, fragile, frail, infirm, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weak, weakly), barreira de idiomas, apático (apathetic, apathetical, bovine, cool, drowsy, frigid, lethargy, listless, prostrate, sleepy, toneless). (various references)

Romanian

tânjitor (sorrowful), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), plin de dor (lackadaisical, wistful), pasiv (inactive, liability, passive, passively, quiescent, recumbent, tame, unemployed), moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), fãrã vlagã (amort, bloodless, flabby, flat, inert, languidly, limp, limply), fãrã energie (dead alive, lifeless, spineless, tame-spirited), apatic (apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, indifferent, indolently, insensible, lackadaisical, lackadaisically, languidly, listless, moony, sleepy, sluggish, supine, tardy, torpid). (various references)

Russian 

вялый (apathetic, apathetical, dopey, dopy, drowsy, exanimate, flabby, flaccid, flat, indolent, inert, insipid, lackadaisical, languorous, lethargic, listless, remiss, saggy, sapless, slack, sluggish, spiritless, stolid, torpid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), omlitaveo, malaksao (exhausted, languishing, languorous). (various references)

Spanish

lánguido (dopey, dopy, effete, lackadaisical, languorous, limp, listless, quaggy). (various references)

Swedish

trög (blockish, dull, flat, inactive, inert, languorous, lifeless, lumpish, obtuse, plodding, purblind, slow, slowcoach, sluggish, soggy, stick in the mud, stolid, tardy, unapt), matt (depressed, dim, dull, dusty, faint, faintly, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lacklustre, lustreless, mat, matt, tame, weak, wishy washy). (various references)

Turkish

uyuz (heartless, inert, itch, itchy, mange, mangy, scab, scabby, scabies, scabious, slouching, slouchy, stick in the mud), tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy), süzgün (drawn, drawn out, languorous), isteksiz (averse, backward, disinclined, grudging, gutless, halfhearted, indisposed, jaded, loath, loth, reluctant, repugnant, sticky, undesirous, undisposed, unwilling, wet), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly, wonky), gayretsiz (halfhearted, slack), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), baygın (comatose, faint, fainted, heavy, insensible, languishing, languorous, senseless, unconscious), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Ukranian 

кволий (ailing, bedrid, crocky, dicky, feeble, fey, nerveless, powerless, puny, ramshackle, silly, spindly, washy, weakly), млявий (asleep, atonic, dopey, indolent, inert, languorous, nerveless, oscitant, remiss), повільний (costive, creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, leisurely, lingering, logy, slack, slow, sluggish, snail-paced, sulky). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lừ đừ; yếu đuối, uể oải (bloodless, cup, dull, languishing, slack, slothful), thiếu sinh động; chậm chạp. (various references)

Welsh

llesg (faint, feeble, sluggish). (various references)

inmarcescibilem, languidus, lassam, lassas, lassi, lassis, lasso, lassum, lassus, marcescant, marcescat, marcescent, marcescere, marcescit, marcidus, marcuerunt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "languid": languidly, languidness, languidnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Languid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anghui, langiud, langu, languir, lanquid, Lengua, lingulid, Llangain, Malgudi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lauding.

-1 letter: auding, lading, ligand, lingua, nilgau, unlaid.

-2 letters: algid, algin, align, dulia, gland, guild, liang, ligan, linga, lungi, nidal, ulnad.

-3 letters: agin, anil, auld, dang, dial, ding, dual, dung, gadi, gain, gaud, gaun, gild, glad, glia, guan, guid, iglu, laid, lain, land, lang, laud, ling, luna, lung, nail, ulan, ulna, unai.

-4 letters: aid, ail, ain, and, ani, dag, dal, dig, din, dug, dui, dun, gad, gal, gan, gid, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lad, lag, lid, lin, lug, nag, nil.

-5 letters: ad, ag, ai, al, an, id, in, la, li, na, nu, un.

+1 letter: alluding, unlading.

+2 letters: abuilding, adulating, belauding, devaluing, dualizing, guildsman, languidly, unaligned, unleading, unloading, uploading.

+3 letters: applauding, dauntingly, defaulting, dialoguing, disvaluing, fungicidal, gadolinium, languished, laundering, modulating, salmagundi, undulating, unfadingly, unsaddling.

+4 letters: acidulating, autoloading, devaluating, duckwalking, duplicating, elucidating, feudalizing, gadoliniums, geniculated, landlubbing, languidness, liquidating, outdazzling, quadrupling, salmagundis, underlaying.

+5 letters: adulterating, agglutinated, astoundingly, boatbuilding, demodulating, depopulating, deregulating, deregulation, disannulling, edulcorating, faultfinding, fluoridating, fungicidally, lifeguarding, longitudinal, singularized, stridulating, triangulated, unbridgeable, underlapping, underplaying, undervaluing, unglamorized.

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