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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
languid \lan"guid\, a. l. languidus, fr. languere to be faint
   or languid: cf. f. languide. see languish.
   1913 webster
   1. drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to
      exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. "
      languid, powerless limbs. " --armstrong.
      1913 webster

            fire their languid souls with cato's virtue.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   2. slow in progress; tardy. " no motion so swift or languid."
      --bentley.
      1913 webster

   3. promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a
      languid day.
      1913 webster

            feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. --keats.
      1913 webster

            their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid
            airs.                                 --w. black.

   syn: feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary;
        listless; heavy; dull; heartless. -- lan"guidly, adv.
        -- lan"guidness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
languish lan"guidly lan"guidness 

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