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say it: LANG-gwuhd
languid is an adjective meaning "lacking spirit or liveliness". 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.