Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon.
Keats.
Their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid airs.
W. Black.
Syn. -- Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary;
listless; heavy; dull; heartless.
-- Lan"guid*ly, adv. -- Lan"guid*ness, n.
Lan"guish (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Languished (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Languishing.] [OE. languishen, languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf.
Gr. &?; to slacken, &?; slack, Icel. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to
E. lag, lax, and perh. to E. slack. See -ish.] 1. To become languid or
weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or
spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
We . . . do languish of such diseases.