languid

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Adj

1. Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
2. Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
3. Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
4. Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
5. Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
6. Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
7. Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.

Noun

Synonym of languet (“a flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ”).

Konzepte

matt

müde

😫

träge

schlapp

schwach

melancholisch

faul

schlaff

schwermütig

betrübt

lustlos

freudlos

Synonyme

sluggish

listless

weak

dull

languorous

lazy

feeble

inert

spiritless

faint

exhausted

lackadaisical

slack

weary

😩

fatigued

tired

😫

flaccid

indolent

debilitated

nerveless

melancholy

drooping

wearied

enervated

weakly

dreamy

droopy

groggy

indifferent

infirm

lethargic

logy

powerless

prostrate

run-down

slow

soft

unnerved

washy

apathetic

wonky

lethargical

light

limp

drowsy

little

asleep

lumbering

lymphatic

dragging

Übersetzungen

lánguido

languissant

languido

lânguido

άτονος

χαύνος

fatigué

languida

مرهق

stanco

😫

lusteloos

rêveur

las

😩

alangui

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈlæŋɡwɪd/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Französisch: languide

Verwandt mit Italienisch: languido

Verwandt mit Portugiesisch: lânguido

Verwandt mit Spanisch: lánguido

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French languide (“fatigued, weak; apathetic, indifferent”) (modern French languide), or from its etymon Latin languidus (“faint, weak; dull; slow, sluggish; ill, sick, unwell; (figuratively) inactive, inert, listless”), from langueō (“to be faint or weak; (figuratively) to be idle, inactive, or listless”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g- (“to weaken”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives). Doublet of languish.
Cognates
* Italian languido (“languid; languishing”)
* Portuguese lânguido (“languid; listless”)
* Spanish lánguido (“languid, weak”)