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Webster 1913 Edition
Languorous
Lan′guor-ous
,Adj.
[From
Languor
: cf. F. langoureux
.] Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.
[Obs. or Poetic]
Whom late I left in
languorous
constraint. Spenser.
To wile the length from
The sting from pain.
languorous
hours, and drawThe sting from pain.
Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Languorous
LAN'GUOROUS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
languorous
languorous
English
Alternative forms
- langorous
- langourous
- languourous
Adjective
languorous (comparative more languorous, superlative most languorous)
- lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
- 1911, George Sterling, The House of Orchids:
- Warm as a Lesbian valley's afternoon Made langourous with June
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