| 单词 | lassitude |
| 释义 | lassitude (once / 4854 pages) n If you are feeling lassitude, you're weary and just can't be bothered. Couch potatoes make lassitude into an art form. Lassitude might sound like latitude, but the two words don't mean the same thing. Latitude describes the distance of a particular location from the equator. Lassitude is the weariness you'd experience after attempting to run a marathon around the equator. Lassitude can also describe a lack of interest, like deciding you'd rather lie on your couch than run that marathon along the equator. WORD FAMILYlassitude: lassitudes USAGE EXAMPLESStill, in my three days around Kennedy, this sense of lassitude would sometimes give way, without warning, to pangs of realization. The New Yorker(Sep 23, 2016) He grew angry at what he saw as Obama’s lassitude against the increasing strength of what would become the Islamic State. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) But the Justice Department has been politically tainted by, among other things, its lassitude regarding the IRS’s abuses against conservative advocacy groups. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) 1n a feeling of lack of interest or energy Syn|Hyper languor, listlessness apathy an absence of emotion or enthusiasm 2n weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy Syn|Hyper inanition, lethargy, slackness weakness the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain 3n a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) Syn|Hypo|Hyper lethargy, sluggishness hebetude mental lethargy or dullness torpidity, torpor a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility |
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