Listless

Word LISTLESS
Character 8
Hyphenation list less
Pronunciations /ˈlɪstləs/

Definitions and meanings of "Listless"

What do we mean by listless?

Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; lethargic. adjective

Characterized by a lack of energy or interest. adjective

Indifferent to or taking no interest in what happens about one; languid and unheeding: as, a listless hearer or spectator.

Marked by languid inactivity; manifesting relaxed attention; inanimate: as, a listless attitude.

Synonyms Listless, Careless, Supine, Indolent. The listless and the careless do not care or desire; the supine and the indolent do not care enough to conquer their shrinking from activity or work. The words may all indicate a temporary state or a permanent element of character; indolent generally indicates the latter. (See idle.) Careless is not caring; supine is literally lying flat on one's back, not rousing one's self at all, ignobly indifferent; listless, indifferent and languid. Listless does not necessarily imply blame.

Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. adjective

Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness. adjective

Marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm adjective

Lacking zest or vivacity adjective

Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.

Indifferent, too tired to care about anything. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Listless

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The word "listless" in example sentences

After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, ❋ Unknown (2010)

But he grew up, I think, with -- I don't want to use the word listless; I'm very careful -- with a sense of following in the family footsteps to some extent, but not in the political vein. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Since I arrived not a leaf has stirred, not a bird has sung, the tides ebb and flow in listless and soundless ripples. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

She could do nothing for herself, she could only obey Joan's dictates, and this she did in listless misery. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Design, were pretty lethargic, a word that means "listless" - and also a word Wiggins might not know how to spell. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A shadow was on the threshold, and before I had recalled my listless fancy, in tripped Frances Sutherland, herself, feigning not to see me. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Hence, in this anarchic foam of tastes and distastes, a kind of listless blur, gradually appears the figure of a bodily enigma, requiring complicity or irritation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

DAN HILL, BODY LANGUAGE EXPERT: And if you don't do something, I think you run the risk of looking kind of listless, forlorn, marooned. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Robert visited Saturday but we were kind of listless and uncreative. ❋ K. A. Laity (2006)

So I still feel kind of listless and shitty, and I couldn't for the life of me come up with a reason. ❋ Spectre12 (2005)

Meanwhile the old man went maundering on, talking of the weather, and of his sick child, and 'Mr. Elsmere,' with a kind of listless incoherence which hardly demanded an answer, though Langham threw in a word or two here and there. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

After a day or two spent in a kind of listless dreaming, Clayton was so far recovered as to be able to sit up and look about him. ❋ Unknown (1856)

It is true, again, that in many departments of labor, a diligent exertion during even this limited space of the day, occasions such a degree of lassitude and heaviness as to render it almost inevitable, especially in certain seasons of the year, to surrender some moments of the spare time, beyond what is necessary for the humble repast, to a kind of listless subsidence of all the powers of both body and mind. ❋ John Foster (1806)

[The emendation is given in both annotated copies; but the substitution of "listless" for "listening," which is adopted in the Fifth Edition, does not appear in the Murray copy,] ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

Sveden, who suffers from emphysema had been coughing a lot and feeling "listless". ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Marijuana] makes [many] people listless, [therefore] expungable. ❋ Larstait (2003)

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