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languorous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective languorous has 1 sense
- languorous(s = adj.all) dreamy, lackadaisical, languid - lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" Derived form noun languor3
CIDE DICTIONARY
languorous, a. [From Languor: cf. F. langoureux.].
Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [1913 Webster]
"Whom late I left in languorous constraint."
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"To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw
The sting from pain." [1913 Webster]
The sting from pain." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
languorous
abeyant, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blase, bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken, circumspect, claudicant, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, dilatory, dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, effete, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, faineant, faint, faintish, faltering, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gone, gradual, groggy, gutless, halting, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, idle, imbecile, impotent, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indolent, indulged, inert, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languishing, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, loose, lumbering, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, nerveless, numb, pampered, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, poking, poky, pooped, powerless, relaxed, reluctant, rubbery, sapless, sated, sauntering, sedentary, shuffling, sinewless, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, soft, somnolent, spineless, spiritless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, strengthless, strolling, stultified, supine, suspended, tame, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, unhardened, unhurried, unnerved, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, weak, weakly, weary, world-weary
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