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Definition of languid in English: languidadjective ˈlaŋɡwɪdˈlæŋɡwəd 1(of a person, manner, or gesture) having or showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort. his languid demeanour irritated her Example sentencesExamples - Arens was in his early forties, sandy haired and had an almost languid grace.
- We discussed the similarities between the movements of a dancer to the movement of a mobile, such as the fact that both have languid, free-flowing movement.
- Nothing in his languid, arm-over-the-back-of-the-chair demeanour suggests that he moves with the lightness of a gazelle or handles a rugby ball so well that it appears at times to be soldered to the palm of his hand.
- The beast began to walk down the mountain, its massive form possessing a kind of languid grace.
- Subtle movements include curving languid reaches, then tiny rises onto toes or a shift in torso played out in the individual squares.
- ‘Good man,’ commented Robert, still training the barrel on the man with a languid manner.
- Beneath the languid demeanour and the aristocratic drawl was what one of his closest civil service allies called a ‘constructive ruthlessness’.
- Katherine was slightly alarmed by his languid movements.
- He was educated, he tells us, at expensive private schools, speaks with a languid upper-class voice, lives in a very nice house and has a semi-dormant baronetcy.
- Even if I had not been able to spot Gerald in the throng of gentlemen, his languid grace on the ballroom floor revealed his identity.
- No wonder the fishermen on the old bridge seem so languid in their movements; they've been mesmerised by the scenery.
- I'd never seen her flustered or hurried, so that her movements were always languid.
- The people who moved in the languid yet haughty movements of the ‘proper’ dances of the day seemed like ghosts to her, ghosts from a world which she did not know.
- She was a beautiful woman with languid movements.
- Even at the age of 42, the outlines of an athlete are plainly visible in the leanness of his frame, the gaunt sharpness of his features and the languid flow of his movement.
- ‘That would be great,’ she said, her voice languid.
- ‘I wonder how,’ a languid, distinctly male voice drawled from Kate's door, and Kate smiled.
- ‘A show about an accounting report,’ he intoned more loudly, sarcasm entering his languid voice.
- But listen hard and you'll hear an attention to detail belied by the languid grace of Le Fumeur de Ciel.
- Two eagle rays came swimming towards us with languid grace.
Synonyms relaxed, unhurried, languorous, unenergetic, lacking in energy, slow, slow-moving listless, lethargic, phlegmatic, torpid, sluggish, lazy, idle, slothful, inactive, indolent, lackadaisical, apathetic, indifferent, uninterested, impassive informal laid back rare otiose, pococurante, Laodicean - 1.1 (of a period of time) relaxed and peaceful.
the terrace was perfect for languid days in the Italian sun Example sentencesExamples - William has managed to coddle his pulsing green quarry of these long, languid days.
- On a languid day, maybe a half-dozen little boys or girls would stop in with enough change for an orange soda or maybe just a piece of bubble gum, and Connie would read them a story or show them a story-video as an extra treat.
- We interrupt this languid Sunday afternoon for an announcement of considerable import.
- Summer's here… and it's time for those long, lazy, languid days, filled with nothing more demanding than cool dips in the pool, cooler drinks and perhaps some daydreaming.
- I always associate Latin American music with languid days and sunshine.
- One day Korea may well reunify, and the journey from Seoul to Pyongyang will be a languid day trip taken by families carrying picnic baskets filled with kimchi.
- Time is of small importance when there's a tale to be told, a pint of tar-black stout to be enjoyed and a languid holiday cruising the rivers and lakes of this enchanting isle.
- In the hotel's 11-acre palm-fringed ground mynah birds chatter, chipmunks dart about and the rhythmic crashing of the ocean waves harmonises the languid days.
- Cobalt lagoons, whispering palms and long, languid days above and below the waves make it one of the best kept secrets in the South Pacific
- It's a great place for a languid weekend breakfast and an even better spot to peer over the top of a nicely constructed Martini at a nicely constructed companion.
- But aside from esoteric views on what may or may not have been a languid past few years in music the question still remains as to whether the next few will see a worthwhile scene or not.
- Indeed, the characterization and dramatics play out like the languid day on a calm blue waterway.
Synonyms leisurely, peaceful, languorous, relaxed, restful, lazy
2Weak or faint from illness or fatigue. she was pale, languid, and weak, as if she had delivered a child Example sentencesExamples - She finally stood up, straightening her dress, as her boyfriend propped his weary, languid body up on his elbows.
- Silently they washed and dressed, feeling languid and heavy from physical exertion and lack of sleep.
- It works on the principle that there are basically four different physical states of being: fatigued, tense, languid, and dynamic.
- Tiny children sit passively by their parents, too weak and languid to play or run around, as cars flash past them.
- If you have sufficient physical energy but are feeling dull and languid, you need a movement pattern with some creative fire to spark your life force.
Synonyms sickly, weak, faint, feeble, frail, delicate, debilitated, flagging, drooping tired, weary, fatigued, enervated
Derivatives adverb ˈlaŋɡwɪdli He is still a charming talker who looks you straight in the eye as he languidly spins out his stories about growing up in Mexico, which he considers his spiritual home. Example sentencesExamples - The days are spent writing music, swimming and reading while Dominic works in his studio, the evenings spent languidly in his arms in the warm evening air.
- She languidly draws herself up to a sitting position.
- The trees across the river flapped about in the rising wind, their broad leaves languidly enfolding one another, and then the blessed rain came.
- He swayed through gaps languidly, gliding into space.
noun I think that, growing up in a culture where every second of screen-time has to be justified or is cut, something about that languidness unsettles me. Example sentencesExamples - The detective's languidness and characteristic dress, the male formal attire dissembled slightly for the rain-slicked street, has produced its own markers of the urbane, even if drawn from Casablanca rather than Los Angeles.
- I also have a formal lab report to write for Chemistry, but I don't really care - Summer Sun, for all of its languidness and completely unnecessary flaws, is the exact record I need right now.
- We meet in Soho, in a tall, skinny office just large enough to accommodate his 6ft 2ins of long-limbed languidness.
- The new book, too, begins innocuously enough, with a deceptive, Merchant-Ivory languidness.
Origin Late 16th century (in sense 2): from French languide or Latin languidus, from languere (see languish). Definition of languid in US English: languidadjectiveˈlaNGɡwədˈlæŋɡwəd 1(of a person, manner, or gesture) displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed. they turned with languid movements from back to front so as to tan evenly Example sentencesExamples - He was educated, he tells us, at expensive private schools, speaks with a languid upper-class voice, lives in a very nice house and has a semi-dormant baronetcy.
- We discussed the similarities between the movements of a dancer to the movement of a mobile, such as the fact that both have languid, free-flowing movement.
- Even if I had not been able to spot Gerald in the throng of gentlemen, his languid grace on the ballroom floor revealed his identity.
- ‘Good man,’ commented Robert, still training the barrel on the man with a languid manner.
- No wonder the fishermen on the old bridge seem so languid in their movements; they've been mesmerised by the scenery.
- Even at the age of 42, the outlines of an athlete are plainly visible in the leanness of his frame, the gaunt sharpness of his features and the languid flow of his movement.
- I'd never seen her flustered or hurried, so that her movements were always languid.
- Arens was in his early forties, sandy haired and had an almost languid grace.
- ‘A show about an accounting report,’ he intoned more loudly, sarcasm entering his languid voice.
- Nothing in his languid, arm-over-the-back-of-the-chair demeanour suggests that he moves with the lightness of a gazelle or handles a rugby ball so well that it appears at times to be soldered to the palm of his hand.
- Katherine was slightly alarmed by his languid movements.
- The people who moved in the languid yet haughty movements of the ‘proper’ dances of the day seemed like ghosts to her, ghosts from a world which she did not know.
- She was a beautiful woman with languid movements.
- The beast began to walk down the mountain, its massive form possessing a kind of languid grace.
- ‘That would be great,’ she said, her voice languid.
- But listen hard and you'll hear an attention to detail belied by the languid grace of Le Fumeur de Ciel.
- Two eagle rays came swimming towards us with languid grace.
- Beneath the languid demeanour and the aristocratic drawl was what one of his closest civil service allies called a ‘constructive ruthlessness’.
- Subtle movements include curving languid reaches, then tiny rises onto toes or a shift in torso played out in the individual squares.
- ‘I wonder how,’ a languid, distinctly male voice drawled from Kate's door, and Kate smiled.
Synonyms relaxed, unhurried, languorous, unenergetic, lacking in energy, slow, slow-moving - 1.1 (of an occasion or period of time) pleasantly lazy and peaceful.
the terrace was perfect for languid days in the Italian sun Example sentencesExamples - William has managed to coddle his pulsing green quarry of these long, languid days.
- It's a great place for a languid weekend breakfast and an even better spot to peer over the top of a nicely constructed Martini at a nicely constructed companion.
- In the hotel's 11-acre palm-fringed ground mynah birds chatter, chipmunks dart about and the rhythmic crashing of the ocean waves harmonises the languid days.
- One day Korea may well reunify, and the journey from Seoul to Pyongyang will be a languid day trip taken by families carrying picnic baskets filled with kimchi.
- But aside from esoteric views on what may or may not have been a languid past few years in music the question still remains as to whether the next few will see a worthwhile scene or not.
- Time is of small importance when there's a tale to be told, a pint of tar-black stout to be enjoyed and a languid holiday cruising the rivers and lakes of this enchanting isle.
- On a languid day, maybe a half-dozen little boys or girls would stop in with enough change for an orange soda or maybe just a piece of bubble gum, and Connie would read them a story or show them a story-video as an extra treat.
- We interrupt this languid Sunday afternoon for an announcement of considerable import.
- Cobalt lagoons, whispering palms and long, languid days above and below the waves make it one of the best kept secrets in the South Pacific
- Summer's here… and it's time for those long, lazy, languid days, filled with nothing more demanding than cool dips in the pool, cooler drinks and perhaps some daydreaming.
- I always associate Latin American music with languid days and sunshine.
- Indeed, the characterization and dramatics play out like the languid day on a calm blue waterway.
Synonyms leisurely, peaceful, languorous, relaxed, restful, lazy
2Weak or faint from illness or fatigue. she was pale, languid, and weak, as if she had delivered a child Example sentencesExamples - It works on the principle that there are basically four different physical states of being: fatigued, tense, languid, and dynamic.
- She finally stood up, straightening her dress, as her boyfriend propped his weary, languid body up on his elbows.
- If you have sufficient physical energy but are feeling dull and languid, you need a movement pattern with some creative fire to spark your life force.
- Tiny children sit passively by their parents, too weak and languid to play or run around, as cars flash past them.
- Silently they washed and dressed, feeling languid and heavy from physical exertion and lack of sleep.
Synonyms sickly, weak, faint, feeble, frail, delicate, debilitated, flagging, drooping
Origin Late 16th century (in languid (sense 2)): from French languide or Latin languidus, from languere (see languish). |