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单词 languorous
释义
languorous
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adj

To be languorous is to be dreamy, lackadaisical, and languid. When someone is languorous, she’s lying around, daydreaming, possibly fanning herself lazily. It’s a little self-indulgent.
Languorous refers to a certain kind of mood everyone gets in sometimes — when you'd rather lie around thinking than doing work or having fun. When you're languorous, you're tired and maybe a little depressed. Things can be languorous, too — like a hot, languorous summer afternoon or a languorous song that’s slow and mournful. If you've ever lounged in bed for an hour after you were supposed to get up, you’re familiar with feeling languorous.
WORD FAMILY
languorous: languorously+/languor: languorous, languors
USAGE EXAMPLES
From the start there’s a febrile mood to this ad hoc household, languorous poolside mornings, friends coming over to drink a bit too much.
New York Times(Oct 24, 2016)
They received compliments with the languorous equanimity of court ladies, which for a night they were.
New York Times(Sep 29, 2016)
The Court’s languorous work schedule includes three months of downtime every summer.
The New Yorker(Sep 26, 2016)
adj lacking spirit or liveliness
a hot languorous afternoon
Syn
dreamy, lackadaisical, languid
lethargic, unenrgetic
deficient in alertness or activity
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