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LANGUOROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does languorous mean?
• LANGUOROUS (adjective)
The adjective LANGUOROUS has 1 sense:
1. lacking spirit or liveliness
Familiarity information: LANGUOROUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking spirit or liveliness
Synonyms:
dreamy; lackadaisical; languid; languorous
Context example:
a hot languorous afternoon
Similar:
lethargic; unenergetic (deficient in alertness or activity)
Derivation:
languor (inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy)
Context examples
I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited—waited with beating heart.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It entered into them, dreamy and languorous, weakening the fibres of resolution, suffusing the face of morality, or of judgment, with haze and purple mist. Martin felt tender and melting, and from time to time warm glows passed over him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said:—Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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