listless
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.
Adjective
- Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or spirit; languid.
Examples
- After a long losing streak, he felt LISTLESS, struggling to find any words.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lystles, equivalent to list (“desire”) + -less. Compare German lustlos and Dutch lusteloos (“lethargic, listless”). Doublet of lustless.
Synonyms
dispirited, Laodicean, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, cool, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, indifferent, ineffervescible, insensible, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, 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
listless: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlistless: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
listless: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary