languescent

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English

Etymology

From Latin; see languescō.

Pronunciation

Adjective

languescent (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Becoming fatigued or languid.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
      carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]
    • 1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139:
      It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.
    • 2002, Frances Myers, Swan: A Novel, →ISBN, page 217:
      She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]

Latin

Verb

languēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of languēscō
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