languorousadj.

Brit.

/ˈlaŋɡ(ə)rəs/, U.S.

/ˈlæŋ(ɡ)(ə)rəs/

Forms: late Middle English languereuse, late Middle English 1800s languerous, late Middle English 1800s– langorous (now nonstandard), 1500s 1700s– languorous, 1700s– langourous (now nonstandard), 1800s– lang'rous (poetic); also Scottish pre-1700 langarus, pre-1700 langorius, pre-1700 langorous, pre-1700 langorus, pre-1700 langourus, pre-1700 langurous, pre-1700 langurus.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French langorous, langoureux.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman langerus, langrus, langorous, languerus, languereus, langurous, langurus and Middle French langoreux, langoureux, French langoureux ailing, sick (mid 11th cent. in Old French), (of a person) lovesick (late 14th cent.), sad, distressed, sorrowful (beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier), exhausted, dejected (1572), (of a person's look) full of languor (1704) < langer , langor , langour , etc. languor n. + -eus , -eux , -ous , -us -ous suffix.With languorously adv. compare French langoureusement (end of the 14th cent. in Middle French). With the form langorius compare -ious suffix. N.E.D. (1901) gives the pronunciation as (læ·ŋgwŏrəs) /ˈlæŋɡwərəs/.

†1. Distressful, sorrowful, mournful. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased

untrumc825

sickc888

unwholec888

slackc897

unstronga900

sicklea1000

sam-halea1023

worseOE

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heallessc1374

sicklyc1374

sicklewa1387

bada1393

mishalea1400

languoring?c1425

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unwell?c1450

detent?a1475

poora1475

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illa1500

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unsound1513

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badly1654

unwholesome1655

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morbulent1656

off the hooksa1658

mawkish1668

morbid1668

unthriven1680

unsane1690

ailing1716

not wellish1737

underlya1742

poorly1750

indifferent1753

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maladized1790

sober1808

sickened1815

broken-down1816

peaky1821

poorlyish1827

souffrante1827

run-down1831

sicklied1835

addle1844

shaky1844

mean1845

dauncy1846

stricken1846

peakyish1853

po'ly1860

pindling1861

rough1882

rocky1883

suffering1885

wabbit1895

icky-boo1920

like death warmed up1924

icky1938

ropy1945

crappy1956

hanging1971

sick as a parrot1982

shite1987

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] > characterized by sorrow

sadc1400

languorousc1475

tragicala1700

melpomenish1801

sorryful1821

tragic1848

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious

angeeOE

swinkfuleOE

plightlyOE

teenfulOE

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drefa1325

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despitousa1340

thornya1340

discomfortablec1350

troublablec1374

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noying?a1425

noisomea1450

grievingc1450

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trying1718

offending1726

bothering1765

pesky1775

weary1785

sturty1788

unaccommodating1790

tiresome1798

werriting1808

bothersome1817

plaguesome1828

pestilential1833

fretsome1834

languorous1834

pesty1834

pestersome1843

nettlesome1845

miserable1850

niggling1854

distempering1855

be-maddeninga1861

nattery1873

nagging1883

pestiferous1890

trouble-giving1893

maddening1896

molestive1905

nuisancy1906

balls-aching?1912

nuisance1922

nattering1949

noodgy1969

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

cockish1996

c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 175 God for His mercy will soon..deliuer me out of this languerous lyf.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos iv. 20 Durynge the langorous tyme that polidorus tolde this vysion myserable.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 1 Ane..medicyne, to cure..al the langorius desolat & affligit pepil.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. M8 Deare Lady how shall I declare thy cace, Whom late I left in languorous constraynt?

1763 tr. J. F. W. Jerusalem Life Prince Albert Henry 43 This illustrious Philanthropist could not let even the last langourous moments of expiring life without doing some good.

1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 295 Then succeeded some languorous tirannas.

1870 A. W. E. O'Shaughnessey Epic of Women 63 We well nigh cheat the hideous spells That force our souls resistless back, With languorous torments worse than hell's.

2. Full of, characterized by, or suggestive of, languor (languor n. 5, 6); (in modern use esp.) characterized by pleasurable relaxation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > characterized by or suggestive of weariness

languorous1753

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > languid

aswindc885

fade1303

enlangouredc1400

sweyntc1450

wearish1650

languid1727

languorous1753

Mondayish1804

the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [adjective] > casting amorous or admiring looks > (of an eye) expressive of tenderness

languishing1748

languorous1753

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > oppressively still or close

mocha1522

faint1525

close1591

clit1610

muggy1638

pothery1696

mochy1794

mucky1804

mungy1809

sulky1817

sticky1855

languorous1887

soggy1897

1753 Dict. Love at Sighs They are very tiresome,..when a languorous lover ‘Vents only in deep sighs his am'rous flame’.

1771 tr. J. G. Zimmermann Ess. National Pride xiii. 200 Still may those monuments emit a spark which may revive pristine sublimity of sentiment in a languorous progeny, that it shall pant after the inheritance it had forfeited.

a1821 J. Keats Day is Gone in Poems (1972) 685 Bright eyes, accomplished shape, and langorous waist.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 144 A medicine in themselves To wile the length from languorous hours and draw The sting from pain.

1882 J. Payne 1001 Nights I. 155 Slender and sleepy-eyed, and languorous of gait.

1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xii. 200 The devotion of the cloister was becoming languorous and soft.

1887 A. Elliot Old Man's Favour II. 286 The atmosphere was..languorous and heavy with the rich scent of flowers.

1924 F. H. Pritchard Training in Literary Appreciation ii. 19 The contrast between the toilsome labor at the oar and the languorous restfulness of the island In which it seemed always afternoon.

1943 Washington Post 18 Apr. s3/1 In many barracks overseas is a special bulletin board, covered with languorous poses of beauteous ladies.

1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman viii. 127 Graveyard writing featured weepy landscapes surreally dotted with languorous women, stone tombs and falling leaves.

2006 South Afr. 19 Dec. 10/5 There will be no braaivleis on the beach, no languorous days watching cricket in the sun and certainly no jumping on watermelons in the pool.

Derivatives

ˈlanguorously adv. in a weary or relaxed manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adverb]

wearily1481

out of breath1565

faintingly1576

languishingly1579

tiredly1659

weariedly1681

pantingly1744

exhaustedly1835

droopingly1852

languorously1858

to a frazzle1865

leadenly1879

jadedly1885

wearifully1888

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adverb] > languidly

languishingly1579

wearishly1633

languidly1726

languorously1858

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adverb] > oppressively still

languorously1858

1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. iv. i. 269 Recline in the long grass, and languorously listen to the multitudinous music of the birds.

1879 Athenæum 24 May 671 A portrait..of a young mother..languorously reposing in a crimson chair.

1931 Art Bull. 13 380 The upper lid droops languorously over the iris.

1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) vii. 147 Cleopatra, a tropical-looking, lemon-and-orange Brimstone, languorously flopping about in gardens..was still a pleasure to net.

1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide Etiquette & Mod. Manners 261 The old Edwardian weekend that stretched languorously from Thursday to Monday is long past.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	languorous
释义	languorousadj. Brit. /ˈlaŋɡ(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈlæŋ(ɡ)(ə)rəs/ Forms: late Middle English languereuse, late Middle English 1800s languerous, late Middle English 1800s– langorous (now nonstandard), 1500s 1700s– languorous, 1700s– langourous (now nonstandard), 1800s– lang'rous (poetic); also Scottish pre-1700 langarus, pre-1700 langorius, pre-1700 langorous, pre-1700 langorus, pre-1700 langourus, pre-1700 langurous, pre-1700 langurus. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French langorous, langoureux. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman langerus, langrus, langorous, languerus, languereus, langurous, langurus and Middle French langoreux, langoureux, French langoureux ailing, sick (mid 11th cent. in Old French), (of a person) lovesick (late 14th cent.), sad, distressed, sorrowful (beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier), exhausted, dejected (1572), (of a person's look) full of languor (1704) < langer , langor , langour , etc. languor n. + -eus , -eux , -ous , -us -ous suffix.With languorously adv. compare French langoureusement (end of the 14th cent. in Middle French). With the form langorius compare -ious suffix. N.E.D. (1901) gives the pronunciation as (læ·ŋgwŏrəs) /ˈlæŋɡwərəs/. †1. Distressful, sorrowful, mournful. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] > characterized by sorrow sadc1400 languorousc1475 tragicala1700 melpomenish1801 sorryful1821 tragic1848 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious angeeOE swinkfuleOE plightlyOE teenfulOE contrariousc1320 drefa1325 troublinga1325 despitousa1340 thornya1340 discomfortablec1350 troublablec1374 noyousa1382 noyfulc1384 diseasy1387 angrya1393 painful1395 hackinga1400 annoying?c1400 annoyousc1400 cumbrousc1400 teenc1400 annoyfulc1405 sputousc1420 diseasefula1425 molest?a1425 noying?a1425 noisomea1450 grievingc1450 tedious?1454 troublous1463 noisantc1475 displeasant1481 strouble1488 nuisant1494 noyanta1500 irksome1513 sturting1513 molestious1524 vexatious1534 cumbersome1535 uncommodious1541 spiteful1548 vexing?1548 incommodious1551 molestous1555 diseasing1558 grating1563 pestilent1565 sturtsome1570 molestuousa1572 troublesome1573 murrain1575 discommodable1579 galling1583 spiny1586 unsupportable1586 troubleful1588 plaguey1594 distressingc1595 molestful1596 molesting1598 vexful1598 fretful1603 briery1604 bemadding1608 mortifying1611 tiry1611 distressfula1616 irking1629 angersome1649 disobliging1652 discomforting1654 incomfortable1655 incommode1672 ruffling1680 unconvenient1683 pestifying1716 trying1718 offending1726 bothering1765 pesky1775 weary1785 sturty1788 unaccommodating1790 tiresome1798 werriting1808 bothersome1817 plaguesome1828 pestilential1833 fretsome1834 languorous1834 pesty1834 pestersome1843 nettlesome1845 miserable1850 niggling1854 distempering1855 be-maddeninga1861 nattery1873 nagging1883 pestiferous1890 trouble-giving1893 maddening1896 molestive1905 nuisancy1906 balls-aching?1912 nuisance1922 nattering1949 noodgy1969 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 cockish1996 c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 175 God for His mercy will soon..deliuer me out of this languerous lyf. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos iv. 20 Durynge the langorous tyme that polidorus tolde this vysion myserable. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 1 Ane..medicyne, to cure..al the langorius desolat & affligit pepil. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. M8 Deare Lady how shall I declare thy cace, Whom late I left in languorous constraynt? 1763 tr. J. F. W. Jerusalem Life Prince Albert Henry 43 This illustrious Philanthropist could not let even the last langourous moments of expiring life without doing some good. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 295 Then succeeded some languorous tirannas. 1870 A. W. E. O'Shaughnessey Epic of Women 63 We well nigh cheat the hideous spells That force our souls resistless back, With languorous torments worse than hell's. 2. Full of, characterized by, or suggestive of, languor (languor n. 5, 6); (in modern use esp.) characterized by pleasurable relaxation. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > characterized by or suggestive of weariness languorous1753 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > languid aswindc885 fade1303 enlangouredc1400 sweyntc1450 wearish1650 languid1727 languorous1753 Mondayish1804 the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [adjective] > casting amorous or admiring looks > (of an eye) expressive of tenderness languishing1748 languorous1753 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > oppressively still or close mocha1522 faint1525 close1591 clit1610 muggy1638 pothery1696 mochy1794 mucky1804 mungy1809 sulky1817 sticky1855 languorous1887 soggy1897 1753 Dict. Love at Sighs They are very tiresome,..when a languorous lover ‘Vents only in deep sighs his am'rous flame’. 1771 tr. J. G. Zimmermann Ess. National Pride xiii. 200 Still may those monuments emit a spark which may revive pristine sublimity of sentiment in a languorous progeny, that it shall pant after the inheritance it had forfeited. a1821 J. Keats Day is Gone in Poems (1972) 685 Bright eyes, accomplished shape, and langorous waist. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 144 A medicine in themselves To wile the length from languorous hours and draw The sting from pain. 1882 J. Payne 1001 Nights I. 155 Slender and sleepy-eyed, and languorous of gait. 1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xii. 200 The devotion of the cloister was becoming languorous and soft. 1887 A. Elliot Old Man's Favour II. 286 The atmosphere was..languorous and heavy with the rich scent of flowers. 1924 F. H. Pritchard Training in Literary Appreciation ii. 19 The contrast between the toilsome labor at the oar and the languorous restfulness of the island In which it seemed always afternoon. 1943 Washington Post 18 Apr. s3/1 In many barracks overseas is a special bulletin board, covered with languorous poses of beauteous ladies. 1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman viii. 127 Graveyard writing featured weepy landscapes surreally dotted with languorous women, stone tombs and falling leaves. 2006 South Afr. 19 Dec. 10/5 There will be no braaivleis on the beach, no languorous days watching cricket in the sun and certainly no jumping on watermelons in the pool. Derivatives ˈlanguorously adv. in a weary or relaxed manner. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adverb] wearily1481 out of breath1565 faintingly1576 languishingly1579 tiredly1659 weariedly1681 pantingly1744 exhaustedly1835 droopingly1852 languorously1858 to a frazzle1865 leadenly1879 jadedly1885 wearifully1888 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adverb] > languidly languishingly1579 wearishly1633 languidly1726 languorously1858 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adverb] > oppressively still languorously1858 1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. iv. i. 269 Recline in the long grass, and languorously listen to the multitudinous music of the birds. 1879 Athenæum 24 May 671 A portrait..of a young mother..languorously reposing in a crimson chair. 1931 Art Bull. 13 380 The upper lid droops languorously over the iris. 1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) vii. 147 Cleopatra, a tropical-looking, lemon-and-orange Brimstone, languorously flopping about in gardens..was still a pleasure to net. 1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide Etiquette & Mod. Manners 261 The old Edwardian weekend that stretched languorously from Thursday to Monday is long past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1475
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