Languorous \Lan"guor*ous\, a. [From Languor: cf. F.
langoureux.]
Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by
languor. [Obs. or Poetic]
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Whom late I left in languorous constraint. --Spenser.
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To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw
The sting from pain. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
languorous
adj : lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a
languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot
languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical,
languid]
WordNet (r) 2.0
167 Moby Thesaurus words for "languorous":
abeyant, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blase,
bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken,
circumspect, claudicant, cowardly, crawling, creeping,
creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, dilatory,
dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, effete,
enervated, etiolated, exanimate, faineant, faint, faintish,
faltering, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy,
foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gone, gradual, groggy, gutless,
halting, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, idle, imbecile,
impotent, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indolent,
indulged, inert, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, languid,
languishing, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic,
lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, loose, lumbering,
lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, nerveless, numb,
pampered, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, poking, poky, pooped,
powerless, relaxed, reluctant, rubbery, sapless, sated, sauntering,
sedentary, shuffling, sinewless, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful,
slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling,
slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced,
slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish,
slumbering, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, soft, somnolent,
spineless, spiritless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing,
static, strengthless, strolling, stultified, supine, suspended,
tame, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering,
trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, unhardened, unhurried, unnerved,
unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, weak, weakly,
weary, world-weary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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