HIGH vocabulary
Languid
Lacking energy, vitality, or enthusiasm; slow and relaxed.
Example
"They spent a languid afternoon lounging beneath the shade of the weeping willow."
Etymology
From Latin languidus ('faint, sluggish'), from languere ('to be faint or weak').
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