listless
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- lacking zest or vivacity
- "he was listless and bored"
- marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm
- "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation"
Adj
- Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lystles, equivalent to list (“desire”) + -less. Compare German lustlos and Dutch lusteloos (“lethargic, listless”). Doublet of lustless.
Synonyms
adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, cool, dispassionate, dispirited, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, indifferent, ineffervescible, insensible, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lotophagous, lukewarm, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, phlegmatic, pococurante, shiftless, spiritless, supine, tepid, torpedinous, torpid, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Scrabble Score: 8
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