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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lan·guid a.
 1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. “ Languid, powerless limbs. ”
    Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.   --Addison.
 2. Slow in progress; tardy. “ No motion so swift or languid.”
 3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.
    Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon.   --Keats.
    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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