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listlesslist‧less /ˈlɪstləs/ adjective listlessOrigin: 1400-1500 list ‘pleasure, desire’ (13-19 centuries) (from Old English lystan ‘to please, wish’) + -less - Her performance was dull and listless.
- She had to keep thinking up new ways to hold the attention of her listless pupils.
- The last few years of my mother's life she was tired and listless most of the time.
- Tim is listless on the job and keeps making dumb mistakes.
- For a couple of hours they played a listless game of Scrabble in front of the fireplace.
- He completely lost interest in feeding and became very listless.
- If Upper Gumtree proved listless, so much the better for Flokati's chances.
- It was the peace of death and sorrow, in a land weary of war, and made listless by loss.
- She had been pale, listless, disaffected and Katherine was stricken by remorse.
- The appeal fell on listless ears.
- Weary unto death, listless and depressed, Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan.
tired and having no interest in anything► lethargic feeling tired and lazy, as if you have no interest in doing anything: · All this hot weather is making me feel lethargic.· Patients with depression may be lethargic during the day and unable to sleep at night.· The spectacular play inspired his lethargic teammates to start playing harder. ► listless feeling tired and not interested in anything, especially because you are ill: · Tim is listless on the job and keeps making dumb mistakes.· The last few years of my mother's life she was tired and listless most of the time.· She had to keep thinking up new ways to hold the attention of her listless pupils. feeling tired and not interested in things: The heat was making me listless.—listlessly adverb—listlessness noun [uncountable] |