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say it: LANG-gwuhd
languid is an adjective meaning "lacking spirit or liveliness". It is pronounced /ˈlæŋɡwəd/ — LANG-gwuhd. It carries one recorded sense.
lacking spirit or liveliness
“a lackadaisical attempt”
“a languid mood”
“a languid wave of the hand”
“a hot languorous afternoon”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for languid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.