languid
lacking energy or vigor; pleasantly slow and unhurried
Word origin: From Latin languere, to be faint or weak.
Languid in a sentence
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The languid afternoon heat sapped everyone's energy and left them too drowsy to work.
The languid afternoon by the river left the whole party disinclined to do anything more strenuous than read.
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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
Using “languid” well
Languid can be neutral or even pleasant, describing an unhurried slowness, but it also names a lack of energy, and it contrasts with energetic and brisk.
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