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Languorous

Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.

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Lethargic 84% connected

Alt. of Lethargical

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Lethargic 84% connected

Alt. of Lethargical

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Lethargy 74% connected

Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

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Lethargy 74% connected

Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

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Dreamy 92% connected

Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

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Lackadaisical 92% connected

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental.

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Languid 92% connected

Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.

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Anarchical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchi…

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Assimilatory adjective · 78% connection

Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.

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Attraction noun · 78% connection

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…

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Conducive adjective · 78% connection

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.

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Convergent adjective · 78% connection

tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

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Corruptive adjective · 78% connection

Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.

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Deadness noun · 78% connection

The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference;…

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Debility adjective · 78% connection

The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

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Delirifacient adjective · 78% connection

Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.

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Descensive adjective · 78% connection

Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.

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Dipsetic adjective · 78% connection

Tending to produce thirst.

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Draw verb · 78% connection

To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to pro…

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Dyingness noun · 78% connection

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.

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Effervescive adjective · 78% connection

Tending to produce effervescence.

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Electro-motive adjective · 78% connection

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.

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Engraving noun · 78% connection

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of pro…

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Ennui noun · 78% connection

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

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Fluctiferous adjective · 78% connection

Tending to produce waves.

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