Lan"guid (?), a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.]
1.
Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
"
Languid, powerless limbs. "
Armstrong.
Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.
Addison.
2.
Slow in progress; tardy.
" No motion so swift or
languid."
Bentley.
3.
Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.
Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon.
Keats.
Their idleness, aimless and languid airs.
W. Black.
Syn. -- Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless.
-- Lan"guid*ly, adv. -- Lan"guid*ness, n.
© Webster 1913.