Languid
(Lan"guid) a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.]
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 flirtations 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.
Languish
(Lan"guish) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Languished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Languishing.] [OE. languishen,
languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf. Gr. to slacken, slack, Icel. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E.
lag, lax, and perh. to E. slack. See -ish.]
1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to
pine away; to wither or fade.
We . . . do languish of such diseases.
2 Esdras viii. 31.
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
Pope.
For the fields of Heshbon languish.
Is. xvi. 8. 2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.
Syn. — To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.
Languish
(Lan"guish) v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.] Shak. Dryden.
Languish
(Lan"guish), n. See Languishment. [Obs. or Poetic]
What, of death, too,
That rids our dogs of languish ?
Shak.
And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.
Pope. Languisher
(Lan"guish*er) n. One who languishes.
Languishing
(Lan"guish*ing), a.
1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.
2. Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.
Languishingly
(Lan"guish*ing*ly), adv. In a languishing manner.
Languishment
(Lan"guish*ment) n.
1. The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak.
