Meanings
- not comparablerareBecoming fatigued or languid.
[S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)2 more examples
It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.
1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]
2002, Frances Myers, Swan: A Novel, →ISBN, page 217
Origin
From Latin; see languescō.
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languescent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/languescent
“languescent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/languescent. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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