languid

Meanings

Plural: languids

Adjective Satellite

lacking spirit or liveliness
- "a languid mood"
- "a languid wave of the hand"

Adj

Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
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”).

Origin / Etymology

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”)

Synonyms

abeyant, adiaphroistic, anemic, apathetic, apathistical, at rest, banal, banjaxed, beat, blah, bland, blasé, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, boring, breakable, broken-down, buggered, bushed, busted, cessant, cold, colourless, cool, cream crackered, damaged, dark, dead tired, debilitated, decrepit, deep, delicate, dickless, dispassionate, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, dormant, drab, drained, dreamy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, dusky, easygoing, effete, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, fagged out, faint, fallow, fatigued, feeble, flat, flimsy, forfairn, forlagen, forworn, fragile, frail, fried, fucked, full, fuscous, gallionic, gassed, halfhearted, harmed, hasteless, heartless, heavyeyed, ho-hum, humdrum, hurt, idle, impaired, impassive, impotent, inactive, indifferent, ineffervescible, inert, infirm, injured, inky, insensible, insipid, insouciant, intense, jaded, jiggered, Kerry Packered, knacked, knackered, lackadaisical, lackluster, lame, language, languet, languid, languorous, Laodicean, latent, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, listless, longsome, lotophagous, low, lukewarm, monotonous, mopey, mundane, muted, nadgered, no fun at parties, nonactive, nonchalant, nonplussed, out of gas, pedantic, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plain, played out, plodding, pococurante, pooped, pooped out, powerless, prosaic, prostrate, prostrated, prosy, pumped, puny, quiescent, raddled, resistless, run-down, sapped, saturated, sedent, sedentary, shagged, shagged out, shattered, shiftless, shot, silent, sleepy, slightsoft, slow, snoozeworthy, softened, somber, soporific, spent, spiritless, static, stodgy, straightforward, stuffed, supine, susceptible, suspended, swarthy, tedious, tender, tepid, tired, tired out, torpedinous, torpid, tuckered, tuckered out, unactive, unaroused, unbusy, uncaring, unconcerned, uncool, unemployed, unenthusiastic, unhasty, unhectic, unimpressible, uninterested, uninteresting, unlively, unmoved, unoccupied, unresistant, unrushed, untouched, unzealous, vanilla, vapid, vincible, vulnerable, wan, wappened, washed out, wasted, weak, weakened, weaksauce, weariful, weary, weedy, whacked, whipped, wimpy, wooden, world-weary, worn, worn out, yielding, zonked

Scrabble Score: 9

languid is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
languid is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
languid is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

languid is a valid Words With Friends word