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Languescent

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Languescent is an adjective meaning (rare) Becoming fatigued or languid.

Meaning

(rare) Becoming fatigued or languid.

Example Sentences

[S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]
She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]
It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include languid, lank, lethargied, fainty, lethargic, somnolent.

languidlanklethargiedfaintylethargicsomnolentlanguishinglimpsomehebetudinouslethargicaltorpescentfuggylentitudinousfatiguesomelumpishtabescentlethargicklanguedslumbrous

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