languid
pronunciation
How to pronounce languid in British English:
UK [ˈlæŋɡwɪd]
How to pronounce languid in American English:
US [ˈlæŋɡwɪd]
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- Adjective:
- lacking spirit or liveliness
Word Origin
- languid (adj.)
- 1590s, from Middle French languide (16c.) and directly from Latin languidus "faint, listless," from languere "be weak or faint," from PIE root *(s)leg- "to be slack" (see lax). Related: Languidly; languidness.
Example
- 1. The illness made him feel languid .
- 2. The nurse asks languid silk stockings to be that you have injection .
- 3. Gudrun must have asked herself late mornings and middle afternoons , on the long languid evenings and during the endless nights .
- 4. She flashed through the brush and descended the bank , and lambright was shocked by the languid swiftness with which she crossed the earth .
- 5. The languid young married woman rests on the floor , expects you .