unlively

Adj

• Not lively.

Adjective

• Lacking vigor, spirit, or animation.

Examples

• An unlively game of Scrabble is often caused by players hoarding high-value tiles.

Synonyms

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