languorous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
languorous
    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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Languorous \Lan"guor*ous\, a. [From {Languor}: cf. F.
   langoureux.]
   Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by
   languor. [Obs. or Poetic]
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         Whom late I left in languorous constraint. --Spenser.
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         To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw
         The sting from pain.                     --Tennyson.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
167 Moby Thesaurus words for "languorous":
      abeyant, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blase,
      bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken,
      circumspect, claudicant, cowardly, crawling, creeping,
      creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, dilatory,
      dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, effete,
      enervated, etiolated, exanimate, faineant, faint, faintish,
      faltering, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy,
      foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gone, gradual, groggy, gutless,
      halting, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, idle, imbecile,
      impotent, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indolent,
      indulged, inert, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, languid,
      languishing, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic,
      lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, loose, lumbering,
      lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, nerveless, numb,
      pampered, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, poking, poky, pooped,
      powerless, relaxed, reluctant, rubbery, sapless, sated, sauntering,
      sedentary, shuffling, sinewless, slack, 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, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, soft, somnolent,
      spineless, spiritless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing,
      static, strengthless, strolling, stultified, supine, suspended,
      tame, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering,
      trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, unhardened, unhurried, unnerved,
      unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, weak, weakly,
      weary, world-weary

    

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