Languid vs False - What's the difference?
languid | false |
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:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between languid and false
is that languid is languid while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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,
References
*Anagrams
*false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}