Word Meanings - LANGUOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess.
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1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors." The Century. Syn. -- Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LANGUOR)
- Debility
- Weakness
- feebleness
- frailty
- infirmity
- incapacity
- imbecility
- enervation
- lassitude
- languor
- fatigue
- Weariness
- exhaustion
- dilution
- impairment
- decrepitude
- faintness
- inconclusiveness
- worthlessness
- want
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LANGUOR)
Related words: (words related to LANGUOR)
- ENERVATION
1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon. - EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - FRAILTY
1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness; - IMBECILITY
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural - IMPAIRMENT
The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden. - FEEBLENESS
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. - REFRESHMENT
1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; - ANIMATER
One who animates. De Quincey. - WEAKNESS
1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading - FATIGUE
1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. 2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden. 3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue - ANIMATED
Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis. - LANGUOR
1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. - DEBILITY
The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the - ENLIVENER
One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates. - REFRESHER
An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge. London Truth. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, - DECREPITUDE
The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age. - LANGUOROUS
Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson. - INCAPACITY
Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc. Syn. -- Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification; - ANIMATEDLY
With animation. - REFRESHFUL
Full of power to refresh; refreshing. -- Re*fresh"ful*ly, adv. - OVERFATIGUE
Excessive fatigue. - INANIMATE
To animate. Donne. - EXANIMATE
1. Lifeless; dead. "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser. 2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson. - INTERANIMATE
To animate or inspire mutually. Donne. - REANIMATE
To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.