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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, anesthetized, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, desensitized, detached, disinterested, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, easy, effete, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exanimate, fagged, faint, fainting, faintish, faltering, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, footsore, foul, frazzled, gentle, gone, good and tired, gradual, groggy, gutless, half asleep, halting, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle, imbecile, impassive, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languishing, languorous, latent, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, lumbering, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nerveless, nodding, nonchalant, numb, numbed, oscitant, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, powerless, ready to drop, relaxed, reluctant, resigned, rubbery, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sapless, sated, sauntering, sedated, sedentary, seedy, shuffling, sinewless, slack, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, slumbery, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, snoozy, soft, somnolent, soporific, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stoic, strengthless, stretchy, strolling, stultified, stupefied, stuporose, stuporous, supine, suspended, tame, tentative, tired, tired-winged, toddling, toilworn, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhardened, unhurried, uninterested, unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, withdrawn, world-weary, worn, worn-down, yawning, yawny

Dictionary Results for languid:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

languid
    adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt";
           "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot
           languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical,
           languid, languorous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Languid \Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint
   or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.]
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   1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to
      exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. "
      Languid, powerless limbs. " --Armstrong.
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            Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.
                                                  --Addison.
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   2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid."
      --Bentley.
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   3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a
      languid day.
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            Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. --Keats.
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            Their idleness, aimless flirtations 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.
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