Another word for listless
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Adjective
Lacking energy and vitality or showing such a lack
- Lacking energy or enthusiasm; listless.
- Of or relating to lymph or to the nodes or vessels of the lymphatic system.
- Lacking energy or vitality; sluggish.
- A vessel that conveys lymph.
- To walk lamely, especially with irregularity, as if favoring one leg.
- To move or proceed haltingly or unsteadily:
- An irregular, jerky, or awkward gait.
- Made of or containing lead.
- Heavy and inert.
- Listless; sluggish.
- Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; listless:
- Slow-moving or weak in force:
- Showing little or no vitality or animation:
- Lacking spirit, liveliness, or interest; languid:
- Declining; weakening:
- Languid; drooping.
Without emotion or interest
- Exhibiting a lack of responsiveness.
- Not interested in something; having no interest.
- Not interested; indifferent.
- Not anxious or apprehensive; unworried.
- Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive:
- Of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy.
- Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional or apathetic.
- Having phlegm as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.
- Of, causing, or characterized by lethargy.
- Imperceptible; inappreciable:
- Very small or gradual:
- Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious:
- Having no particular interest or concern; apathetic:
- Having no marked feeling for or against:
- Not mattering one way or the other; unimportant; immaterial:
- Lacking intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; uninterested.
- Devoid of or not subject to emotion.
- Revealing no emotion; expressionless.
- Incapable of physical sensation.
- Separated; disconnected:
- Standing apart from others; separate:
- Marked by an absence of emotional involvement or personal interest; aloof or unbiased.
- Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
- Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
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Another word for listless
Modifier
Lacking spirit or desire
- Alternative spelling of easygoing.
- Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
- Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
- Lacking spirit, liveliness, or interest; languid:
- Not aligned with, supporting, or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.
- Belonging to neither side in a controversy:
- Belonging to neither kind; not one thing or the other.
- Not interested in something; having no interest.
- simple past tense and past participle of bore
- suffering from boredom
- uninterested, without attention
- Of, causing, or characterized by lethargy.
- Having relatively great weight:
- Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
- Large, as in number or quantity:
- Made of or containing lead.
- Heavy and inert.
- Listless; sluggish.
- Displaying little movement or activity; slow; inactive:
- Lacking alertness, vigor, or energy; inert or indolent.
- Slow to perform or respond to stimulation.
- Sluggish, lethargic, or inactive:
- Showing little interest; apathetic:
- Conducive to sluggishness or inactivity, especially in being warm and humid:
- Taking insufficient care; negligent:
- Marked by or resulting from lack of forethought or thoroughness:
- Showing a lack of consideration:
- Casually unconcerned or indifferent.
- Mildly warm; tepid.
- Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; indifferent:
- Marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant.
- Not awake; asleep:
- Present but not active or manifest though capable of becoming so:
- Temporarily inactive:
- Of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy.
- Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional or apathetic.
- Having phlegm as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.
- Not having the qualities associated with active, living organisms.
- Not animated or energetic; dull.
- Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for nonliving things:
- Lying on the back or having the face upward.
- Having the palm upward. Used of the hand.
- Marked by or showing lethargy, passivity, or blameworthy indifference:
- Given to moping.
- Not tense or taut; loose:
- Lacking in activity; not busy:
- Moving slowly; sluggish:
- Done with little strength or vigor; feeble:
- So weak as to be difficult to perceive;
- Lacking clarity or distinctness:
- One that lags; a straggler.
- Slow or delayed in action.
- Not present; missing:
- Not existent; lacking:
- Exhibiting or feeling inattentiveness:
- Removed or separated from something else:
- Not engaged with what is going on around one; withdrawn or preoccupied.
- Having no life; inanimate.
- Having lost life; dead.
- Not inhabited by living beings or capable of sustaining life:
- Marked by or paying little heed; unmindful or thoughtless.
- Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy.
- Conducive to inactivity or laziness; lethargic:
- Causing little or no pain:
- Marked by or showing lack of due forethought or care; careless:
- Inconsiderate of the feelings of others:
- Lacking thought:
- Resembling a dream; ethereal or vague.
- Given to daydreams or reverie.
- Soothing and serene.
- Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; listless:
- Slow-moving or weak in force:
- Showing little or no vitality or animation:
- Ready for or needing sleep.
- Sluggish from sleep.
- Inducing sleep.
- Dull with sleepiness; sluggish.
- Produced or characterized by sleepiness.
- Inducing sleepiness; soporific.
- Exhibiting a lack of attention; not attentive.
- Lacking energy or enthusiasm; listless.
- Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
- Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
- Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless:
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish:
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt:
Lacking action
- Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy.
- Conducive to inactivity or laziness; lethargic:
- Causing little or no pain:
- Displaying little movement or activity; slow; inactive:
- Lacking alertness, vigor, or energy; inert or indolent.
- Slow to perform or respond to stimulation.
- Receiving or subjected to an action without responding or initiating an action in return:
- Accepting or submitting without objection or resistance; submissive:
- Existing, conducted, or experienced without active or concerted effort:
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