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单词 lassitude
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Definition of lassitude in English:

lassitude

noun ˈlasɪtjuːdˈlæsəˌt(j)ud
mass noun
  • A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.

    she was overcome by lassitude and retired to bed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The patient may also experience lassitude, have a pale complexion, a sore low back (where the Kidney is located), pale tongue body with thin white coating, and deep slow-weak pulse.
    • Rotten made it clear that there was another kind of fun that could be had, a forbidden fun that was riskier and more dangerous because it aggressively put the lie to the self-congratulatory lassitude of the 1970s.
    • No matter what we do to earn a living, we all seek the benefits of leisure, lassitude and inertia…
    • Moral lassitude is not equal to murder of innocents.
    • And a final example is the deep-seated lassitude in the major Australian corporations that vast superannuation money flow and lack of real competition has engendered.
    • The general lassitude towards tourists followed us into southern Chile where we were constantly held up by crooked tour agents and transport that was always late.
    • As my lassitude, depression and memory loss grew more pronounced, we decided that we needed to drastically change our lives.
    • But also costly figuratively, costly psychologically, because the new social lassitude associated with liberalism affronted cherished values.
    • After five weeks in combat these soldiers sunk into a state of extreme exhaustion and lassitude.
    • That was when the cattle became thin, sometimes painfully so, and it broke the heart of a cattle-owning people to see the herds nibbling at the few dry shreds of grass that remained, their heads lowered in lassitude and in weakness.
    • That's when, for whatever reason, the little white pill I have to take first thing in the morning sets my water system into hyper-productive mode, resulting in feelings of faintness and lassitude.
    • There may be lassitude in the federal response to natural disaster, but that is not the same as culpability, and still less is it culpability for the failings the critics invariably cite.
    • Only on the next morning does one feel the after effects, which include an almost overwhelming lassitude.
    • The patient denied lassitude, dyspnea, or fever.
    • Reading causes lassitude and wearies us tremendously.
    • Early morning lassitude puts all inquisitive minds to rest.
    • Happy in Goa, the Portuguese took their time leaving, lingering here in colonial lassitude until 1961.
    • You still get the runny nose and cough (if you've got them), but it gets rid of the aches, pains and general uncomfortable lassitude.
    • It isn't like they've worked out how to levitate the television remote control across the room to allow for utter and total lassitude.
    • They're conducive, instead, to lassitude, resentment, and political irresponsibility.
    Synonyms
    lethargy, listlessness, weariness, languor, sluggishness, enervation, tiredness, exhaustion, fatigue, sleepiness, drowsiness, torpor, torpidity, ennui, lifelessness, sloth, apathy

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin lassitudo, from lassus 'tired'.

Rhymes

crassitude
 
 

Definition of lassitude in US English:

lassitude

nounˈlæsəˌt(j)udˈlasəˌt(y)o͞od
  • A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.

    she was overcome by lassitude and retired to bed
    a patient complaining of lassitude and inability to concentrate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After five weeks in combat these soldiers sunk into a state of extreme exhaustion and lassitude.
    • That was when the cattle became thin, sometimes painfully so, and it broke the heart of a cattle-owning people to see the herds nibbling at the few dry shreds of grass that remained, their heads lowered in lassitude and in weakness.
    • You still get the runny nose and cough (if you've got them), but it gets rid of the aches, pains and general uncomfortable lassitude.
    • Only on the next morning does one feel the after effects, which include an almost overwhelming lassitude.
    • And a final example is the deep-seated lassitude in the major Australian corporations that vast superannuation money flow and lack of real competition has engendered.
    • There may be lassitude in the federal response to natural disaster, but that is not the same as culpability, and still less is it culpability for the failings the critics invariably cite.
    • The general lassitude towards tourists followed us into southern Chile where we were constantly held up by crooked tour agents and transport that was always late.
    • That's when, for whatever reason, the little white pill I have to take first thing in the morning sets my water system into hyper-productive mode, resulting in feelings of faintness and lassitude.
    • The patient may also experience lassitude, have a pale complexion, a sore low back (where the Kidney is located), pale tongue body with thin white coating, and deep slow-weak pulse.
    • Rotten made it clear that there was another kind of fun that could be had, a forbidden fun that was riskier and more dangerous because it aggressively put the lie to the self-congratulatory lassitude of the 1970s.
    • Reading causes lassitude and wearies us tremendously.
    • Moral lassitude is not equal to murder of innocents.
    • It isn't like they've worked out how to levitate the television remote control across the room to allow for utter and total lassitude.
    • No matter what we do to earn a living, we all seek the benefits of leisure, lassitude and inertia…
    • The patient denied lassitude, dyspnea, or fever.
    • They're conducive, instead, to lassitude, resentment, and political irresponsibility.
    • As my lassitude, depression and memory loss grew more pronounced, we decided that we needed to drastically change our lives.
    • Early morning lassitude puts all inquisitive minds to rest.
    • Happy in Goa, the Portuguese took their time leaving, lingering here in colonial lassitude until 1961.
    • But also costly figuratively, costly psychologically, because the new social lassitude associated with liberalism affronted cherished values.
    Synonyms
    lethargy, listlessness, weariness, languor, sluggishness, enervation, tiredness, exhaustion, fatigue, sleepiness, drowsiness, torpor, torpidity, ennui, lifelessness, sloth, apathy

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin lassitudo, from lassus ‘tired’.

 
 
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