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languidly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin languidusder. Middle French languidebor. Latin languidusbor. English languid Middle English -ly English -ly English languidly From languid + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.
   • He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that.
   • Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self. 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 137:
   • Miss Gimblet, who seemed to feel that the presence of her friend called for something extra professional in the way of attitude, reclined on the bed and languidly smoked a cigarette. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 95:
   • “It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry, languidly. 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:

Forms

Translations (4)

es lánguidamente (in a languid manner) · ca lànguidament (in a languid manner) · pt languidamente (in a languid manner) · it languidamente (in a languid manner)