languescent
languescent adjective: becoming fatigued or languid.
Adjective
languescent (not comparable)
- Becoming fatigued or languid.
- [S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]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)
- It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139
Origin of languescent
From Latin; see languescō.
Words that rhyme with languescent
- crescent
- evanescent
- deliquescent
- fluorescent
- incandescent
- efflorescent
- quiescent
- senescent
- accrescent
- acquiescent
- arborescent
- circumcrescent
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- convalescent
- depressant
- effervescent
- erubescent
- excrescent
- iridescent
- juvenescent
- lapidescent
- pubescent
- recrudescent
- reflorescent
- spinescent
- tumescent
- virescent
- viridescent
- acaulescent
- adipescent
- adularescent
- adultescent
- adultolescent
- agonescent
- albescent
- alcalescent
- alkalescent
- antidepressant
- autofluorescent
- autoluminescent
- biofluorescent
- bioluminescent
- calescent
- candescent
- cathodoluminescent
- caulescent
- cerulescent
- cessant
- chemifluorescent
- chemiluminescent
- chemoluminescent
- cinerescent
- coalescent
- concrescent
- contabescent
- crystalloluminescent
- cytofluorescent
- decadescent
- decalescent
- defervescent
- delitescent
Questions about languescent
- What does languescent mean?
- Languescent means becoming fatigued or languid.
- What part of speech is languescent?
- Languescent is an adjective.
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