languidly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that."
- "Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self."
- "“It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry, languidly."
- "Miss Gimblet, who seemed to feel that the presence of her friend called for something extra professional in the way of attitude, reclined on the bed and languidly smoked a cigarette."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin languidusder. Middle French languidebor. Latin languidusbor. English languid Middle English -ly English -ly English languidly From languid + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more languidly (comparative)
most languidly (superlative)