Languor
['læŋgə]
Definition
(noun.) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; 'the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends'.
(noun.) a feeling of lack of interest or energy.
(noun.) a relaxed comfortable feeling.
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Definition
(n.) A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
(n.) Any enfeebling disease.
(n.) Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Feebleness, debility, languidness, faintness, languishment.[2]. Dulness, torpidness, listlessness, heaviness, ENNUI.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lassitude, weariness, weakness
ANT:Strength, vigor, freshness, energy, lithesomeness
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Definition
n. state of being languid or faint: dullness: listlessness: softness.—adj. Lang′uorous full of languor: tedious: melancholy.—v.t. Lang′ure (Spens.) to languish.
Editor: Tess
Examples
- But his languor altogether was quite a wonderful sight; except when he addressed himself to his cousin Annie. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Besides which, she is so charmingly ugly,' relapsing into languor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Shall I ever forget the manner in which those handsome proud eyes seemed to spring out of their languor and to hold mine! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I knew it meant work, she said, drooping to languor again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- On waking the next morning she felt oppressed with unwonted languor. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They retired, and I turned towards my friend; but he was sunk in languor, and almost deprived of life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There was a languor, a want of spirits, a want of union, which could not be got over. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Marie seemed wonderfully supported, always, when she got upon this topic; and she now opened her eyes, and seemed quite to forget her languor. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She gave way to listless languor. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It incidentally showed that her apparent languor did not arise from lack of force. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One point was evident in this; that she had been existing in a suppressed state, and not in one of languor, or stagnation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mrs. Micawber put on her brown gloves, and assumed a genteel languor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was a voluptuous and purely effeminate languor about Julia's character, which was well adapted to the eastern style of dress. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Her tone of calm languor, for she never took the trouble of raising her voice, was always heard and attended to; and Sir Thomas came back. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- His eyes were bright, his countenance composed, an air of concentrated energy was diffused over his whole person, much unlike its former languor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Sharon