languid

Meaning

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”).

Synonyms

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

domestic

poky

poor

striking blade

adynamic

puny

restless

stick in the mud

sad

☹️

shiftless

sickly

dicky

slight

slim

slothful

feel heavy

sluggardly

dejected

small

die-away

colourless

tame

thin

colorless

toneless

torpid

unaccented

subjugable

subduable

gloomy

bad

👎

idle

inactive

weakfish

fragile

forceless

listeless

flagging

laggard

languishing

feckless

fain

atonic

Translations

lánguido

languissant

müde

😫

matt

fatigué

langoureux

las

😩

schwach

schlapp

träge

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlæŋɡwɪd/

Etymology

Cognate with French: languide

Cognate with Italian: languido

Cognate with Portuguese: lânguido

Cognate with Spanish: 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”)