Usually means: Lacking energy or vitality; sluggish.
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  1. languid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. languid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. languid: Collins English Dictionary
  4. languid: Vocabulary.com
  5. Languid, languid: Wordnik
  6. languid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. languid: Wiktionary
  8. languid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. languid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. languid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Languid, languid: Dictionary.com
  12. languid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. languid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Languid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. languid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. languid: Rhymezone
  17. languid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. languid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. languid: Free Dictionary
  20. languid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. languid: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. languid: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. languid: Legal dictionary

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Languid: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See languidly as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
adjective:  Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
adjective:  Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
adjective:  Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
adjective:  Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
adjective:  Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
adjective:  Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
noun:  Synonym of languet (“a flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ”)

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