listless Definition
list·less (list′lis)
listless Related Forms
listless Synonyms
listless
modif.
Lacking spirit or desire
dull, stupid, spiritless, inattentive, drowsy, sleepy, languid, dreamy, thoughtless, indolent, heedless, lifeless, abstracted, absent, laggard, faint, lacking zest, slack, mopish, supine, inanimate, phlegmatic, dormant, insouciant, lukewarm, nonchalant, careless, torpid, sluggish, leaden, heavy, lethargic, bored, uninterested, languorous, neutral, lackadaisical, enervated, apathetic, easy-going; see also indifferent 1, unconcerned.Lacking action
listless Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- very: Not feeling so well these days get very listless.
- so: Everybody got so listless that for once I and my dreamer found ourselves in the lead.
- rather: The same rather listless deadpan succession of scenes, only loosely connected, with a haphazard sense of narrative.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
feel: I gave up smoking on Monday and feel a bit listless in a way.
Modifies a noun
- manner: All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy.
- performance: Gallagher gives an understated, almost listless, performance in keeping with his character's reserve.
- idleness: Service in the field being desultory and intermittent, the intervals were often long and frequent, but too readily spent in listless idleness.
- hand: McMurdo sat in silence for some time, with the letter in his listless hands.
- face: There are no bored, listless faces at the end of these scintillating runs.
- world: A listless world seemed to agree with him and appeared content to forget the massacres.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: One day I was resting on my bed and feeling listless, with no goal to aim at.
- become: She'd become listless, hardly leaving the house.
- appear: This condition occurs commonly in young hamsters kept together when one or more may suddenly appear listless.
- seem: Both had been looking dehydrated and Anthea seemed very listless.
- get: Not feeling so well these days get very listless.
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