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Definition
lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly- No urging could increase his languid pace.
languid = slow (lacking energy or relaxed)
- a languid wave of the hand
- A gradual warmth, a languorous weariness passed over him descending along his spine from his closely cowled head.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He did everything with direct and decisive movements, in contrast to his languid look.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Louisa awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened on her old bed at home, and her old room.Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
- the languid beat of the stern-wheel came plainly to my ears.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- She looked up at him languidly, as though her lids were weighted with sleep and it cost her an effort to raise them.Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
- at last the Caterpillar ... addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Most of the children were still in a land of half stupor, languid, like limp rags.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- On the whole, however, they seemed languid and exhausted.Albert Camus -- The Stranger
- At once he starts eating sleepily, she to eat languidly, staring vaguely out.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- The two men sauntered languidly to the tableOscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The first signs of reawakening came when he discovered more than languid interest in the daily paper.London, Jack -- Martin Eden
- a hot languorous afternoon
- In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything.Burnett, Frances Hodgson -- The Secret Garden
- He gave, at any rate, like a convalescent slightly fatigued, a languid shake of his head.James, Henry -- Turn Of The Screw
- and, for a moment, Wolfe lifted his languid head.Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Grandfather's Chair
- How languid their conversation the last evening of their being togetherAusten, Jane -- Sense and Sensibility
- Liza Merkalova was a thin brunette, with an Oriental, languid type of face, and—as everyone used to say—exquisite enigmatic eyes.Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
- Ah I ever I behold Thy dreamy, passionate eyes, Blue as the languid skiesPoe, Edgar Allan -- Poems
languorous = slow, relaxed, or with little energy
languid = relaxed
languidly = slowly and in a relaxing, non-energetic manner
languid = slowly moving
languidly = slowly and without much energy
languid = slow and lacking energy
languid = having little energy and moving slowly
languid = to lack energy
languidly = in a slow, relaxed manner without much energy
languidly = moving slowly