Lan"guid (?), a. [L. languidus,
fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide.
See Languish.]
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 flirtations 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.
