lethargic
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
unenrgetic, Laodicean, 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, 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 Christmas, slow as a snail, 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, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unspeedy, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
lethargic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlethargic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lethargic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary