Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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languid

/ˈlæŋɡwɪd/ adjective, noun

Forms languids

  1. adjective Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
  2. adjective Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
  3. adjective Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
  4. adjective Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
  5. adjective Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
  6. adjective Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
  7. adjective Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak. “languid breathing    languid movements”
  8. noun Synonym of languet (“a flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ”).

Synonyms

bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired bushed tired out spent wrecked drained dog-tired dog-weary exhausted fatigued forfairn forlagen forworn heavyeyed jaded enervated out of gas dreamy lackadaisical languorous

Antonyms

energetic vigorous

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French languide (“fatigued, weak; apathetic, indifferent”) (modern French languide), or from its etymon Latin languidus (“faint, weak; dull; slow, sluggish; ill, sick, unwell; (figuratively) inactive, inert, listless”), from langueō (“to be faint or weak; (figuratively) to be idle, inactive, or listless”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g- (“to weaken”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives). See also the related languish.

A variant of languet.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong.
  2. adjective Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid." Bentley.

Etymology [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “languid”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “languid” (best matches first).

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