Languid

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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.

Synonyms: Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless. Lan"guid*ly, adv. Lan"guid*ness, n.