Feckless vs Languid - What's the difference?
feckless | languid |
Lacking purpose.
* 2005 , Canberra Times , September 10
Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
(UK) Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
(British, archaic) Lacking vitality.
Lacking enthusiasm, energy, or strength; drooping or flagging from weakness, fatigue, or lack of energy; indisposed to exertion; sluggish; relaxed: as, languid movements; languid breathing.
* — As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
* — I was languid and dull and very bad company when I wrote the above; I am better now, to my own feelings at least, and wish I may be more agreeable.
Heavy; dull; dragging; wanting spirit or animation; listless; apathetic.
A languet in an organ (musical instrument).
* 1913 , Standard Organ Building , page 150:
As adjectives the difference between feckless and languid
is that feckless is lacking purpose while languid is languid.feckless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman."
Synonyms
* futile, hopeless, ineffective, ineffectual, feeble, meaningless, useless * unpurposed, worthless, aimless, careless, reckless, irresponsibleAntonyms
* effective, efficient, meaningful, useful * purposeful, careful, responsibleExternal links
* *languid
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* exhausted * faint * listless * swear/sweer * weak * wearyEtymology 2
Alteration of (m).Noun
(en noun)- As may be required, a small hole is bored in either of the languids', or in the back of the pipe in the space between the two '''languids'''. By this means, in addition to the current of air passing between the ' languids and the lower lip,