different between languid vs groggy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læ?.?w?d/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin languidus (“faint, weak, dull, sluggish, languid”).

Adjective

languid (comparative more languid, superlative most languid)

1. Lacking enthusiasm, energy, or strength; drooping or flagging from weakness, fatigue, or lack of energy
   • March 10 1753, (attributed to) Samuel Johnson, The Adventurer

     As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

   • 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, letter to Fanny

     I was languid and dull and very bad company when I wrote the above; I am better now, to my own feelings at least, and wish I may be more agreeable.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:

     George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce.

2. Heavy; dull; dragging; wanting spirit or animation; listless; apathetic.

Synonyms

• exhausted
• faint
• listless
• swear/sweer
• weak
• weary

Derived terms

• languidly

Related terms

• languish
• languor
• languorous

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of languet.

Noun

languid (plural languids)

1. A languet in an organ (musical instrument).
   • 1913, Standard Organ Building, page 150:

     As may be required, a small hole is bored in either of the languids, or in the back of the pipe in the space between the two languids. By this means, in addition to the current of air passing between the languids and the lower lip, […]

References

• languid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Gauldin, dualing, lauding

English

Etymology

grog +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.?i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

groggy (comparative groggier, superlative groggiest)

1. Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

   The medicine made him groggy and irritable.

2. Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting.

Descendants

• ? Czech: grogy / groggy
• ? French: groggy
• ? Spanish: grogui

Translations

Further reading

• groggy at OneLook Dictionary Search

Czech

Adjective

groggy

1. Alternative form of grogy

Further reading

• groggy in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• groggy in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English groggy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?i/

Adjective

groggy (invariable)

1. groggy

Further reading

• “groggy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).