LANGUID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does languid mean? 

• LANGUID (adjective)
  The adjective LANGUID has 1 sense:

1. lacking spirit or liveliness

  Familiarity information: LANGUID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANGUID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking spirit or liveliness

Synonyms:

dreamy; lackadaisical; languid; languorous

Context example:

a hot languorous afternoon

Similar:

lethargic; unenergetic (deficient in alertness or activity)

 Context examples 

Half an hour followed that would have been at least languid under any other circumstances, but Fanny's happiness still prevailed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

How languid their conversation the last evening of their being together!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Rose later than usual. Lucy was languid and tired, and slept on after we had been called.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“The case has certainly some points of interest,” said he, in his languid fashion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I must have asked Miss Fairfax, and her languid dancing would not have agreed with me, after yours.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sometimes the languid sea rose over him and he dreamed long dreams; but ever through it all, waking and dreaming, he waited for the wheezing breath and the harsh caress of the tongue.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first signs of reawakening came when he discovered more than languid interest in the daily paper.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I visited Edinburgh with languid eyes and mind; and yet that city might have interested the most unfortunate being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)