different between languid vs languescent

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

From Latin; see languesc?.

Adjective

languescent (not comparable)

1. Becoming fatigued or languid.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]

   • 1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139:

     It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.

   • 2002, Frances Myers, Swan: A Novel ?ISBN, page 217:

     She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]

Latin

Verb

langu?scent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of langu?sc?