listless

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.