Word Meanings - LANGUID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: LANGUID

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 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LANGUID)

• Faint
• Weak
• languid
• fatigued
• unenergetic
• timid
• irresolute
• feeble
• exhausted
• half-hearted
• obscure
• dim
• pale
• faded
• inconspicuous
• Listless
• Indifferent
• careless
• uninterested
• vacant
• indolent
• supine
• lackadaisical
• torpid
• heedless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LANGUID)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to LANGUID)

• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• SUPINE
  1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden. 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent;
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• FADGE
  To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley. (more info) unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• HALF-HEARTED
  1. Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind. B. Jonson. 2. Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm. H. James.
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• RESUPINE
  Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry