Meanings
comparative more languorous · superlative most languorous · alternative langorous · alternative langourous · alternative languourous
- lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical.
Warm as a Lesbian valley's afternoon Made langourous ^([sic]) with June
1911, George Sterling, The House of Orchids2 more examples
The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 128 August 2018, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg After a languorous stretch of exposition that introduces a lot of pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo and enough supporting characters to fill a Dickens novel (played by the likes of Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis, and Ruby Rose), we follow a three-person submersible down to the ocean depths.
Synonyms: listless, unenthusiastic, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivelacking spirit or liveliness
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchlangoreux
- Englishlanguorous
From Middle French langoreux.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian отпаднал, отмалял
- отпаднал (otpadnal)lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
- отмалял (otmaljal)lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
Esperanto velka
- velkalacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
French langoureux
- langoureuxlacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
Greek άτονος, νωθρός
- άτονος (átonos)lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
- νωθρός (nothrós)lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
Irish meirbh
- meirbhlacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
Russian вя́лый
- вя́лый (vjályj)lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
Spanish lánguido
- lánguidolacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
Swedish slapp, slö
- slapplacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
- slölacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
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