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# languidly

«languidly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a slow, tired or lazy way, without much energy or hurry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (languidly)

### meaning for a pupil

In a slow, tired or lazy way, without much energy or hurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/languidly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character moves or speaks languidly, as if too relaxed to hurry

### examples

- The cat stretched languidly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/languidly/#x1)
- Uncle Remus sat languidly in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/languidly/#x2)
- She waved languidly to us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/languidly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «languidly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/languidly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.