lackadaisical
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- lacking spirit or liveliness
- "a lackadaisical attempt"
- idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; ; - P.G.Wodehouse
- "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"
- "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"
Adj
- Showing no interest, vigor, determination, or enthusiasm.
- Lazy; slothful; indolent.
Origin / Etymology
From the archaic expression lackadaisy + -ic + -al.
Synonyms
adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, bone-idle, cool, dispassionate, dreamy, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, idle, impassive, indifferent, indolent, ineffervescible, inert, insensible, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lazy, lethargic, listless, lither, lotophagous, lukewarm, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, phlegmatic, pococurante, shiftless, slothful, sluggish, spiritless, supine, swear, tepid, torpedinous, torpid, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, work-shy, world-weary
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