spiritless
Adjective
- lacking ardor or vigor or energy
- "a spiritless reply to criticism"
Adjective Satellite
- evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; ; - Orville Prescott
Adj
- Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
Examples
- The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.
Origin / Etymology
From spirit + -less.
Synonyms
meek, Laodicean, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blasé, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, cool, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, dispassionate, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, enervated, forlorn, gallionic, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, halfhearted, heartless, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, impassive, inconsolable, indifferent, ineffervescible, infelicitous, insensible, insouciant, jaded, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lackadaisical, lamentful, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, lotophagous, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lukewarm, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, nonchalant, nonplussed, passionate, phlegmatic, plaintive, pococurante, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, shiftless, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, supine, tepid, threnetic, threnetical, torpedinous, torpid, triste, tristful, unaroused, uncaring, uncheerful, uncheery, unconcerned, unconsolable, unenthusiastic, unhappy, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, world-weary, wretched
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
spiritless: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordspiritless: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
spiritless: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary