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What (who) is LANGUID - definition
languid
If you describe someone as languid, you mean that they show little energy or interest and are very slow and casual in their movements. (LITERARY)
To his delight a familiar, tall, languid figure lowered itself down the steps of a club.
ADJ
• languidly
We sat about languidly after dinner...
ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
Languid
·adj Slow in progress; tardy.
II. Languid ·adj Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.
III. Languid ·adj Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
languid
a.
1.
Faint, exhausted, drooping, pining, languishing, flagging, weak, feeble.
2.
Dull, torpid, listless, spiritless, heartless, heavy, inactive, slow, sluggish.
Examples of use of LANGUID
1. The languid poof is out and the warrior gay is in.
2. But the languid perfume of honeysuckle is punctuated by an equally heavy stench of raw sewage.
3. He also is fighting the notion that he is lazy, given his languid pace of campaigning.
4. Most of the time I was in a different world, one with its own languid rhythm.
5. His languid eye charted the progress of other women in and out of the library.