| languid | 1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " "Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue." (Addison) 2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid." 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) Synonym: Feeble, weak, faint, sickly, pining, exhausted, weary, listless, heavy, dull, heartless. Languidly, Languidness. Origin: L. Languidus, fr. Languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. Languide. See Languish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| languish | 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 landguish 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. Synonym: To pine, wither, fade, droop, faint. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| languor | 1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterised by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. "Sick men with divers languors." (Wyclif (Luke iv. 40)) 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors." Synonym: Feebleness, weakness, faintness, weariness, dullness, heaviness, lassitude, listlessness. Origin: OE. Langour, OF. Langour, F. Langueur, L. Languor. See Languish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| langya | <zoology> [Native name Anglicized. One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life. Synonym: walking fishes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |