What's the difference between languid and somnolent?

Languid


Definition:

  • (a.) Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
  • (a.) Slow in progress; tardy.
  • (a.) Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) General symptoms (fatique, languidness, loss of appetite, temperature) are the same as in younger patients.
  • (2) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
  • (3) Ibrahimovic, so languid, had looked an embarrassment at times in this enthralling team, but everything Barça created began from the back.
  • (4) Noted for his Savile Row suits and languid charm, he was nevertheless a tough and wily reporter in the field, using his wits to escape death on more than one occasion.
  • (5) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (6) When I was nine, Walk On The Wild Side was number 10 in the charts, and there had never been a record so languid and funky and cool and sexy.
  • (7) Languidly shifting between conversation, poetry and film, he refused to fix on one genre.
  • (8) (“It’s a bit embarrassing if the audience doesn’t know the context.”) His film-making strengths – as displayed in Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady , Syndromes and a Century , and Uncle Boonmee itself – are a structural audacity that often results in narratives stopping dead, switching characters, or reformatting themselves; a languid, lyrical shooting style; and an unhurried investigation of memory and place.
  • (9) The data showed a “functioning market with decent price growth but limited supply – a languid calm before the storm”, he added.
  • (10) Fair to ask, probably not fair to conclude, unless you also ask how many of the decisions that went into Lampard’s delayed arrival, and Pirlo’s languid sightseeing tour in New York (the viral Vine of him standing transfixed by the near post as NYC concede from a corner makes him look like nothing so much as a country visitor trying to figure out a midtown crosswalk) were also made over Kreis’s head.
  • (11) 8.54am GMT Alpine skiing Here’s more detail, culled languidly from the news wires, on Matthis Mayer’s (provisional) gold.
  • (12) The flagella activate, initially beating in a non-synchronized, languid manner; however, both the tempo and amplitude of the flagellar action gradually increase to resemble that of typical "primitive" sperm once the cells are released from the spermatozeugma.
  • (13) He goes after its baffling, mellifluous names – Smintheus, Agyieus, Platanistius, Theoxenius – his pencil languidly scratches, in a whimsical mock-invocation of Apollo from 1975.
  • (14) 'T here is some cheffing instinct involved," says Jeremy Challender, a remarkably languid character for one whose life revolves around caffeine.
  • (15) And they bring with them wonderful memories: it was so lovely being warm and languid all the time, if not very clean.
  • (16) In another video , Chapman is shown languidly browsing around Macy's department store while at the same time a Russian official is filmed standing on the street outside.
  • (17) Denuded of their social and political context, they serve, alongside Copacabana and the palm-fringed beaches of its northern coasts, as code for languid tropical hedonism, the brand identity of Brazil in the global tourist market.
  • (18) It was a quirk of recent matches that Sanchez, so prolific in the first half of the season, had lost his eye for goal since the return of the languid assists man.
  • (19) May talk about Liverpool, too 9.15am Below the line, Chaval asks: "Sean, I'm of a mind to back the plucky Danish resistance to hang on for a draw against a languid Dutch side today, at odds not too shy of 3-1.
  • (20) Seated on his plinth he seemed a languid, even slightly twinkly figure, spectacles balanced on the bridge of his nose, a velvet glove rather than a clattering gavel.

Somnolent


Definition:

  • (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lethargy and somnolence were reported on both capsule and tablet by several subjects at a time which corresponded with the maximum concentration of drug in plasma.
  • (2) On admission, the patient's state of consciousness deteriorated from somnolence to coma.
  • (3) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
  • (4) A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with tremor and somnolence, followed soon by coma.
  • (5) Diminished salivary flow was significantly greater with amitriptyline, as were complaints of dry mouth, somnolence, dizziness, and headache.
  • (6) Somnolence, hypotonia, weight gain, excitation, and insomnia were the most common problems at the beginning of the study and were usually transient.
  • (7) A 60-year-old woman who for many years had been taking salicylate-containing tablets for headaches, was admitted to hospital, in a somnolent state, because of increasing weakness, tiredness, memory and speech disorders, and tinnitus.
  • (8) The central anticholinergic syndrome (CAS) includes central signs (somnolence, confusion, amnesia, agitation, hallucinations, dysarthria, ataxia, delirium, stupor, coma) and peripheral signs (dry mouth, dry skin, tachycardia, visual disturbances and difficulty in micturition).
  • (9) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
  • (10) Our data demonstrate that patients with diagnosable disorders of excessive somnolence may be discordant on the two tests (eg, having low sleep latency on MSLT but high sleep latency on MWT).
  • (11) Tolerance was good with the rare problem of somnolence.
  • (12) Neurological examination on admission revealed somnolence and right-hemiparesis.
  • (13) The clinical features include overwhelming episodes of sleep, excessive daytime somnolence, hypnagogic hallucinations, disturbed nocturnal sleep; manifestations of dissociated REM sleep inhibitory process, cataplexy and sleep paralysis; and a special polygraphic pattern: the sleep onset REM episode.
  • (14) Symptoms of excessive daytime somnolence range from mild to severe.
  • (15) Subjects with a history of post-irradiation somnolence syndrome were significantly older at diagnosis than nonsomnolent subjects.
  • (16) In some cases there was a marked additional fall of arterial pressure in the orthostatic position, a sensation of dryness in the mouth, weakness and mild somnolence.
  • (17) The results indicate that inattention and somnolence negatively influence memory performance and should be taken into account when evaluating the Amytal memory test results.
  • (18) Clinical symptoms include excessive daytime somnolence, overwhelming daytime sleep episodes, attacks of cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis and disturbed nocturnal sleep; sleep onset REM episodes are the main polygraphic feature.
  • (19) Patients with the hypersomnia-sleep apnea syndrome should be provided with a tracheal opening during sleep when severe daytime somnolence, cardiac arrhythmias, and hypertension are present.
  • (20) The decreased somnolence and increased libido and potency which accompanied therapy with levodopa suggest damage to dopaminergic and noradrenergic pathways.

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