languid

  • 81sluggish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inactive, stagnant, torpid, slow; lazy, slothful, dull, indolent; languid, apathetic, lethargic. See inactivity, slowness.Ant., energetic, active. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. inactive, torpid,… …

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  • 82Weakness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Weakness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 weakness weakness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 debility debility atony relaxation languor enervation Sgm: N 1 impotence impotence &c. 158 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 83Insensibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Insensibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insensibility insensibility insensibleness Sgm: N 1 moral insensibility moral insensibility Sgm: N 1 inertness inertness inertia Sgm: N 1 vis inertiae vis inertiae Sgm: N 1… …

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  • 84lats — [akin to Eng let] : lazy. Deriv. lasiws languid, latei laziness, latjan make lazy, letan let, leths (led ) (*) reward, letnan (*) allow, lets (*) letting. Comp. afletan dismiss, aflets decree, analatjan make languid, andletnan be dismissed,… …

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  • 85lax — {{11}}lax (adj.) c.1400, loose (in reference to bowels), from L. laxus wide, loose, open, figuratively loose, free, wide, from PIE root * (s)leg to be slack, be languid (Cf. Gk. legein to leave off, stop, lagos hare, lit. with drooping ears,… …

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  • 86dull — [adj1] unintelligent addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy, daft, dense, dim, dim witted, doltish, dumb, feeble minded, half baked, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent, insensate, low, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse,… …

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  • 87lem-1 —     lem 1     English meaning: to crush; fragile     Deutsche Übersetzung: “zerbrechen; zerbrochen, weich”     Material: Gk. νωλεμές, έως “ fatigueless “, maybe from “not zusammenbrechend”, due to eines with preposition o refined *ὄ λεμος n. *ὀ… …

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  • 88lē̆ b-, lō̆ b-, lāb-, leb- —     lē̆ b , lō̆ b , lāb , leb     English meaning: to hang down loosely; lip     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlaff herabhängen”, also “Lippe” (?)     Note: partly with anlaut. s ; besides, but less frequent, often (see in addition lep “peel” am… …

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  • 89lē(i)-3 —     lē(i) 3     English meaning: to weaken; feeble     Deutsche Übersetzung: “nachlassen”     Note: (= lē(i) “grant”, see there)     Material: a. Probably in Gk. ἐλῑ νύ ω “bin idle, lazy, raste”; Lat. lētum “death, Vernichtung” (“*schlaff… …

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  • 90meug-2, meuk- —     meug 2, meuk     English meaning: to slide, slip     Deutsche Übersetzung: A. ‘schlũpfen, schlũpfrig”, out of it ‘schleimig, Schleim”; andererseits B. “darũber streichen, gleiten, entgleiten”     Note: also with anlaut. s     Material: A.… …

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