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What is the adjective for languished?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs languish and langure which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

languid
  1. Lacking enthusiasm, energy, or strength; drooping or flagging from weakness, fatigue, or lack of energy;
  2. Heavy; dull; dragging; wanting spirit or animation; listless; apathetic.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. lethargic, sluggish, torpid, listless, languorous, lazy, sleepy, enervated, inactive, inert, dull, slothful, slow, drowsy, indolent, spiritless, idle, somnolent, dopey, limp, impassive, heavy, unenthusiastic, unenergetic, snoozy, comatose, phlegmatic, weary, relaxed, pococurante, supine, Laodicean, languishing, moony, otiose, energyless, leaden, unhurried, droopy, dreamy, sleepyhead, nebbish, easy, slow-moving, laid-back, laid back, lacking in energy, tired, lifeless, apathetic … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Meanwhile, Ethel lay languid, weary, and hopeless in bed. She was glad to be ill, glad to have the excuse of lying still, glad to be left alone in a quiet, darkened room.”
      “The fever had left him weak and languid from pain and continued want of sleep.”
      “However, those long, languid evenings of drink, club sandwiches, and chatting were always followed by a mad dash across Aden to be back inside the base main gate by midnight.”
languorous
  1. lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sluggish, lethargic, languid, listless, torpid, slow, enervated, lazy, sleepy, apathetic, heavy, dopey, tired, inactive, spiritless, inert, lackadaisical, limp, indifferent, comatose, snoozy, weary, unhurried, impassive, feeble, weak, unenthusiastic, leaden, relaxed, unconcerned, uninterested, languishing, phlegmatic, leisurely, supine, energyless, moony, blah, easy, dreamy, lymphatic, sleepyhead, nebbish, flagging, wimpy, blahs, faint, infirm, pining, sickly … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Each work is a pithy marvel that captures the languorous excitement of a summer day to remember.”
      “Snail mating is a slow, languorous process, but it also involves some heavy weaponry.”
      “An intricate, languorous game in which stones are moved on a board, Go is largely unknown outside Japan and parts of China.”
languishing
  1. lacking of vigor or spirit.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. listless, sluggish, spiritless, limp, languorous, enervated, lackadaisical, languid, dull, tired, droopy, fatigued, flagging, leaden, lethargic, slumping, tiring, weak, weakening, wearying, wilting, lazy, torpid, impassive, feeble, apathetic, slow, indifferent, energyless, inert, inactive, indolent, laid-back, weary, uninterested, slothful, unenthusiastic, supine, phlegmatic, moony, blah, heavy, sleepy, dopey, unconcerned, comatose, snoozy, relaxed, idle, leisurely … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Harassed by the enemy, and his army languishing from sickness and want of provisions, his affairs seemed in a desperate condition.”
      “He has decided, once more, to do something positive about his languishing career.”
      “Whilst he had been languishing like a lovestruck boy rather than a man of experience, Deb's feelings for him had undergone no such radical change.”
languescent
  1. Becoming fatigued or languid.
languourous
  1. Alternative form of languorous
languished
  1. simple past tense and past participle of languish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. faded, flagged, weakened, declined, decayed, wilted, withered, failed, sank, sunk, sunken, deteriorated, drooped, dwindled, diminished, sagged, ebbed, lagged, emaciated, went, gone, rotted, wasted, moldered, mouldered, sickened, fainted, pined, tuckered, hungered, longed, hankered, yearned, ailed, brooded, desponded, teetered, went downhill, gone downhill, wasted away, grew weak, grown weak, withered away, faded away, fizzled out, went to pieces, gone to pieces, knocked out, went into a decline, gone into a decline … more
langured
  1. simple past tense and past participle of langure
languring
  1. present participle of langure
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