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lassitudinous

lassitudinous adjective: characterized by lassitude.

Adjective

lassitudinous (comparative more lassitudinous, superlative most lassitudinous)

  1. Characterized by lassitude.
    • Let his unhallowed feet never pollute the soft down of a Turkey carpet: ne'er may the sociable sofa receive his lassitudinous limbs, overpowered by the assiduity of cogitation or relaxed by the oppression of ennui: ne'er may his discordant ears be saluted by the sounds of china and porcelain, or...1814, J.E.H., “The adversaria, or, evening recreations, no. X.”, in The Port Folio, volume 3, number 1, page 277
    • And he had lived—still lives—thanks to sorcery alone, for he is naturally lassitudinous and, without his drugs, would barely be able to raise his hand from his side through most of a normal day.1972, Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné, Hutchinson
  2. Tending to bring about lassitude.
    • When Missy sat in the classroom, exhausted with the lassitudinous warmth of spring and with the painful uncertainty of whether she'd be called to translate the Vergil passage she hadn't mastered, visions of that coming glory would rise to brighten weary hours; and the last thing at night, in...1920, Dana Gatlin, Missy, Doubleday

Forms of lassitudinous

comparativemore lassitudinous
superlativemost lassitudinous

Origin of lassitudinous

From Latin lassitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin lassitūdō, from lassus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, lassitude + -ous.

Questions about lassitudinous

What does lassitudinous mean?
Lassitudinous means characterized by lassitude.
What part of speech is lassitudinous?
Lassitudinous is an adjective.

Words near lassitudinous in the dictionary

  1. lassis
  2. Lassiter
  3. Lassiters
  4. lassitude
  5. lassitudes
  6. lassitudinous
  7. lasslorn
  8. lasso
  9. lasso cell
  10. lasso cells
  11. lasso peptide

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