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.