Definition of languor in English:

languor

noun ˈlaŋɡəˈlæŋ(ɡ)ər

mass noun

1Tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable.
her whole being was pervaded by a dreamy languor
Example sentencesExamples
- There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
- With its lines of dialogue being few and far between, and its long, vast shots of the golden deserts and the cold white mountains, the film can be accused of languor, and even self-indulgence, at moments.
- Discussion of a common foreign and defence policy - an even more leisurely and circular debate than that on human rights and sovereignty - can never have the same fine careless languor it had before.
- Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
- Her eyes, he wrote, ‘were of a tawny black, full of exotic languor and coaxing softness’.
- For the non-appearance of satisfaction is suffering; the empty longing for a new desire is languor, boredom.
- My truck doesn't have sports-car driving dynamics but it has a kind of authoritative languor about it, just kind of suavely rolling along.
- The nugget of a good album resides within the languor and the lassitude presented here.
- A previously neutral note might gain an accent or portamento stress as the mood momentarily wakens into passion or leans into languor.
- Not that the background was soft: Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University would not exactly equip him with a look of effortless languor.
- But even if population density is regarded as a reason for India's economic languor, it cannot be justified.
- I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
- He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
- The windswept Yorkshire hills, the terraced houses, dappled woods and shadowy interiors, help convey a warm summer languor.
- The hedonistic pleasures of languor and warmth - going lightly dressed, swimming in balmy seas at dusk, talking and drinking under the stars - are just as appealing.
- Yet why not hope for a change in appetite, why not hope that vulnerability, doubt, languor, even feyness, might find a mass market once again?
- It is a taste for languor, the grotesque and the bizarre.
- Palmer grounds further mistrust in an awareness of the late hour of language, in anxiety regarding its itinerant languor and lapse, its reflecting gaze having decayed.
- The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar.
- Adolescent languor returns too, and a slower pace of life: lazing around all day talking, laughing, listening to music, skulking around so as not to get caught by adults.
Synonyms
lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, tiredness, torpor, fatigue, weariness
laziness, idleness, indolence, inactivity, inertia, sluggishness
sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence, enervation, lifelessness, apathy
2An oppressive stillness of the air.
the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor
Example sentencesExamples
- The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics.
- Sometimes both the languor and the silence are overdone.
- The sea breezes, the tropical languor, that old susegad, had conspired to make Goa an oriental fleshpot.
- Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day.
Synonyms
stillness, tranquillity, calm, calmness, lull, silence, windlessness, oppressiveness, heaviness

Derivatives

languorous

adjective ˈlaŋɡərəsˈlæŋ(ɡ)(ə)rəs

1Characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind.
summer has a slow, languorous feel to it here
Example sentencesExamples
- the languorous pace of the film
- It's so much easier to be languorous and inactive when it's hot.
- Leisure conspired with the languorous climate to the spinning of dreams.
- For the last two years, it has been conducted with much fanfare in a carnival atmosphere, and it has attracted young people unlikely to be otherwise interested in the leisurely, and apparently languorous, world of cricket.
- the atmosphere is languorous and sultry
2Characterized by an oppressive stillness.

languorously

adverbˈlaŋɡərəsliˈlæŋ(ɡ)(ə)rəsli

Brushing away the crumbs left behind from my feast, stretching languorously as I look about my surroundings, I see doors that lead to places unknown.
Example sentencesExamples
- Just ahead, several yellow-headed vultures formed a mourning party, and as we got closer, they flapped languorously into the air.
- A no-frills bible of basic cooking, but not an idiot's guide, which makes the most of budget-priced food to wolf down rather than linger languorously over the flavours.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin, from languere (see languish). The original sense was 'illness, distress', later 'faintness, lassitude'; current senses date from the 18th century, when such lassitude became associated with a romantic yearning.

Rhymes

anger, clangour (US clangor), Katanga, manga, panga, sangar, tanga, Tauranga, Zamboanga

Definition of languor in US English:

languor

nounˈlaNG(ɡ)ərˈlæŋ(ɡ)ər

1The state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia.
he remembered the languor and warm happiness of those golden afternoons
Example sentencesExamples
- Adolescent languor returns too, and a slower pace of life: lazing around all day talking, laughing, listening to music, skulking around so as not to get caught by adults.
- Not that the background was soft: Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University would not exactly equip him with a look of effortless languor.
- Discussion of a common foreign and defence policy - an even more leisurely and circular debate than that on human rights and sovereignty - can never have the same fine careless languor it had before.
- But even if population density is regarded as a reason for India's economic languor, it cannot be justified.
- The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar.
- The nugget of a good album resides within the languor and the lassitude presented here.
- Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
- He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
- My truck doesn't have sports-car driving dynamics but it has a kind of authoritative languor about it, just kind of suavely rolling along.
- Yet why not hope for a change in appetite, why not hope that vulnerability, doubt, languor, even feyness, might find a mass market once again?
- I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
- It is a taste for languor, the grotesque and the bizarre.
- There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
- With its lines of dialogue being few and far between, and its long, vast shots of the golden deserts and the cold white mountains, the film can be accused of languor, and even self-indulgence, at moments.
- The hedonistic pleasures of languor and warmth - going lightly dressed, swimming in balmy seas at dusk, talking and drinking under the stars - are just as appealing.
- The windswept Yorkshire hills, the terraced houses, dappled woods and shadowy interiors, help convey a warm summer languor.
- A previously neutral note might gain an accent or portamento stress as the mood momentarily wakens into passion or leans into languor.
- Her eyes, he wrote, ‘were of a tawny black, full of exotic languor and coaxing softness’.
- Palmer grounds further mistrust in an awareness of the late hour of language, in anxiety regarding its itinerant languor and lapse, its reflecting gaze having decayed.
- For the non-appearance of satisfaction is suffering; the empty longing for a new desire is languor, boredom.
Synonyms
lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, tiredness, torpor, fatigue, weariness
2An oppressive stillness of the air.
the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes both the languor and the silence are overdone.
- The sea breezes, the tropical languor, that old susegad, had conspired to make Goa an oriental fleshpot.
- The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics.
- Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day.
Synonyms
stillness, tranquillity, calm, calmness, lull, silence, windlessness, oppressiveness, heaviness

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin, from languere (see languish). The original sense was ‘illness, distress’, later ‘faintness, lassitude’; current senses date from the 18th century, when such lassitude became associated with a romantic yearning.

单词	languor
释义	Definition of languor in English: languor noun ˈlaŋɡəˈlæŋ(ɡ)ər mass noun 1Tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable. her whole being was pervaded by a dreamy languor Example sentencesExamples There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. With its lines of dialogue being few and far between, and its long, vast shots of the golden deserts and the cold white mountains, the film can be accused of languor, and even self-indulgence, at moments. Discussion of a common foreign and defence policy - an even more leisurely and circular debate than that on human rights and sovereignty - can never have the same fine careless languor it had before. Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire. Her eyes, he wrote, ‘were of a tawny black, full of exotic languor and coaxing softness’. For the non-appearance of satisfaction is suffering; the empty longing for a new desire is languor, boredom. My truck doesn't have sports-car driving dynamics but it has a kind of authoritative languor about it, just kind of suavely rolling along. The nugget of a good album resides within the languor and the lassitude presented here. A previously neutral note might gain an accent or portamento stress as the mood momentarily wakens into passion or leans into languor. Not that the background was soft: Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University would not exactly equip him with a look of effortless languor. But even if population density is regarded as a reason for India's economic languor, it cannot be justified. I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era. He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time. The windswept Yorkshire hills, the terraced houses, dappled woods and shadowy interiors, help convey a warm summer languor. The hedonistic pleasures of languor and warmth - going lightly dressed, swimming in balmy seas at dusk, talking and drinking under the stars - are just as appealing. Yet why not hope for a change in appetite, why not hope that vulnerability, doubt, languor, even feyness, might find a mass market once again? It is a taste for languor, the grotesque and the bizarre. Palmer grounds further mistrust in an awareness of the late hour of language, in anxiety regarding its itinerant languor and lapse, its reflecting gaze having decayed. The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar. Adolescent languor returns too, and a slower pace of life: lazing around all day talking, laughing, listening to music, skulking around so as not to get caught by adults. Synonyms lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, tiredness, torpor, fatigue, weariness laziness, idleness, indolence, inactivity, inertia, sluggishness sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence, enervation, lifelessness, apathy 2An oppressive stillness of the air. the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor Example sentencesExamples The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics. Sometimes both the languor and the silence are overdone. The sea breezes, the tropical languor, that old susegad, had conspired to make Goa an oriental fleshpot. Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day. Synonyms stillness, tranquillity, calm, calmness, lull, silence, windlessness, oppressiveness, heaviness Derivatives languorous adjective ˈlaŋɡərəsˈlæŋ(ɡ)(ə)rəs 1Characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind. summer has a slow, languorous feel to it here Example sentencesExamples the languorous pace of the film It's so much easier to be languorous and inactive when it's hot. Leisure conspired with the languorous climate to the spinning of dreams. For the last two years, it has been conducted with much fanfare in a carnival atmosphere, and it has attracted young people unlikely to be otherwise interested in the leisurely, and apparently languorous, world of cricket. the atmosphere is languorous and sultry 2Characterized by an oppressive stillness. languorously adverbˈlaŋɡərəsliˈlæŋ(ɡ)(ə)rəsli Brushing away the crumbs left behind from my feast, stretching languorously as I look about my surroundings, I see doors that lead to places unknown. Example sentencesExamples Just ahead, several yellow-headed vultures formed a mourning party, and as we got closer, they flapped languorously into the air. A no-frills bible of basic cooking, but not an idiot's guide, which makes the most of budget-priced food to wolf down rather than linger languorously over the flavours. Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin, from languere (see languish). The original sense was 'illness, distress', later 'faintness, lassitude'; current senses date from the 18th century, when such lassitude became associated with a romantic yearning. Rhymes anger, clangour (US clangor), Katanga, manga, panga, sangar, tanga, Tauranga, Zamboanga Definition of languor in US English: languor nounˈlaNG(ɡ)ərˈlæŋ(ɡ)ər 1The state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia. he remembered the languor and warm happiness of those golden afternoons Example sentencesExamples Adolescent languor returns too, and a slower pace of life: lazing around all day talking, laughing, listening to music, skulking around so as not to get caught by adults. Not that the background was soft: Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University would not exactly equip him with a look of effortless languor. Discussion of a common foreign and defence policy - an even more leisurely and circular debate than that on human rights and sovereignty - can never have the same fine careless languor it had before. But even if population density is regarded as a reason for India's economic languor, it cannot be justified. The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar. The nugget of a good album resides within the languor and the lassitude presented here. Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire. He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time. My truck doesn't have sports-car driving dynamics but it has a kind of authoritative languor about it, just kind of suavely rolling along. Yet why not hope for a change in appetite, why not hope that vulnerability, doubt, languor, even feyness, might find a mass market once again? I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era. It is a taste for languor, the grotesque and the bizarre. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. With its lines of dialogue being few and far between, and its long, vast shots of the golden deserts and the cold white mountains, the film can be accused of languor, and even self-indulgence, at moments. The hedonistic pleasures of languor and warmth - going lightly dressed, swimming in balmy seas at dusk, talking and drinking under the stars - are just as appealing. The windswept Yorkshire hills, the terraced houses, dappled woods and shadowy interiors, help convey a warm summer languor. A previously neutral note might gain an accent or portamento stress as the mood momentarily wakens into passion or leans into languor. Her eyes, he wrote, ‘were of a tawny black, full of exotic languor and coaxing softness’. Palmer grounds further mistrust in an awareness of the late hour of language, in anxiety regarding its itinerant languor and lapse, its reflecting gaze having decayed. For the non-appearance of satisfaction is suffering; the empty longing for a new desire is languor, boredom. Synonyms lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, tiredness, torpor, fatigue, weariness 2An oppressive stillness of the air. the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor Example sentencesExamples Sometimes both the languor and the silence are overdone. The sea breezes, the tropical languor, that old susegad, had conspired to make Goa an oriental fleshpot. The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics. Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day. Synonyms stillness, tranquillity, calm, calmness, lull, silence, windlessness, oppressiveness, heaviness Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin, from languere (see languish). The original sense was ‘illness, distress’, later ‘faintness, lassitude’; current senses date from the 18th century, when such lassitude became associated with a romantic yearning.
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