This week's theme
Miscellaneous words

This week's words
reprehend
gravitas
languid
perfuse
noesis

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PRONUNCIATION:

(LANG-gwid)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Lacking vigor or vitality.
2. Lacking interest.
3. Pleasantly lazy and calm.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin languere (to languish). Earliest documented use: 1595.

USAGE:

"Tahiti today is not the calm South Seas paradise depicted in Paul Gauguin's paintings of languid Polynesian women."
South Sea Bubble; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 11, 2004.

See more usage examples of languid in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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