Dictionary

languorous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈlæŋ(ɡ)(ə)rəs/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈlæŋɡərəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle French langoreux.

Meanings

1. lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical.
   • The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:
   • Warm as a Lesbian valley's afternoon Made langourous ^([sic]) with June 1911, George Sterling, The House of Orchids:
   • 8 August 2018, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg After a languorous stretch of exposition that introduces a lot of pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo and enough supporting characters to fill a Dickens novel (played by the likes of Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis, and Ruby Rose), we follow a three-person submersible down to the ocean depths.

Forms

Deriveds

languorousness · languorously · unlanguorous

Relateds

languid · languish · languor

Synonyms

jaded · adiaphroistic · shiftless · apathetic · Laodicean · gallionic · apathistical · phlegmatic · unconcerned · torpedinous · cool · uncaring · enervated · nonplussed · tepid · halfhearted · lukewarm · lotophagous · dispassionate · insouciant · unmoved · mopey · uninterested · blasé · spiritless · ineffervescible · unenthusiastic · unimpressible · impassive · unaroused · world-weary · otiose · unzealous · supine · listless · languid · nonchalant · untouched · blithe · heartless · deaf · indifferent · languorous · unlively · torpid · unenthusiastic · lackadaisical · insensible · listless · dull · lethargic · pococurante · meh

Translations (13)

bg отпаднал (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · sv slapp (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · fr langoureux (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · eo velka (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · el νωθρός (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · el άτονος (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · sh malaksao (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · sh mlitav (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · bg отмалял (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · es lánguido (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · ru вя́лый (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · ga meirbh (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical) · sv slö (lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical)