Languid vs. Languish

Languidadjective

Lacking enthusiasm, energy, or strength; drooping or flagging from weakness, fatigue, or lack of energy

Languidadjective

Heavy; dull; dragging; wanting spirit or animation; listless; apathetic.

Languidnoun

A languet in an organ musical instrument.

Languidadjective

Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.

Languidadjective

Slow in progress; tardy.

Languidadjective

Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

Languidadjective

lacking spirit or liveliness;

Languishverb

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

Languishverb

(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.

Languishverb

(intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.

Languishverb

(intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.

Languishverb

To make weak; to weaken, devastate.

Languishverb

To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.

Languishverb

To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to linger in a weak or deteriorating condition; to wither or fade.

Languishverb

To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.

Languishverb

To be neglected and unattended to; as, the proposal languished on the director's desk for months.

Languishverb

To cause to droop or pine.

Languishnoun

See Languishment.

Languishverb

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;

Languishverb

have a desire for something or someone who is not present;

Languishverb

become feeble;