lethargic
Meanings
Adjective
- deficient in alertness or activity
- "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"
Adj
- sluggish, slow
- indifferent, apathetic
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ληθαργικός (lēthargikós), from λήθαργος (lḗthargos, “forgetful, lethargic”), from λήθη (lḗthē, “a forgetting, forgetfulness”) (from which Lethe (“river in Hades”)) + ἀργός (argós, “not working”). By surface analysis, lethargy + -ic.
Synonyms
abeyant, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, at rest, blasé, cessant, cool, crawling, creeping, dispassionate, dormant, dreich, dull, enervated, fallow, gallionic, gastropodous, glacial, halfhearted, heartless, heavy-footed, idle, impassive, inactive, inching, indifferent, ineffervescible, inert, insensible, insouciant, jaded, labored, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, Laodicean, latent, lazy, lead-footed, leaden, lethargic, listless, lotophagous, low-speed, lukewarm, lumbering, mopey, nonactive, nonchalant, nonplussed, phlegmatic, plodding, pococurante, pokey, ponderous, quiescent, sedent, sedentary, shiftless, silent, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, spiritless, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, supine, suspended, tardigrade, tedious, tepid, testudineous, torpedinous, torpid, unactive, unaroused, unbusy, uncaring, unconcerned, unemployed, unenrgetic, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unspeedy, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
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