'Listless' definitions:
Definition of 'listless'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
adjective
Marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; "a dispirited and divided Party"; "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation" [syn: dispirited, listless]
Definition of 'Listless'
From: GCIDE
- Listless \List"less\, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See Lust.] Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. " A listless unconcern." --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- I was listless, and desponding. --Swift.
- Syn: Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent. -- {List"less*ly}, adv. -- {List"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'listless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aloof,
- anemic,
- apathetic,
- asthenic,
- ataractic,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bloodless,
- bored,
- careless,
- casual,
- chicken,
- comatose,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- dead,
- debilitated,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- devil-may-care,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- disregardful,
- distant,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dull,
- easygoing,
- effete,
- enervated,
- etiolated,
- exanimate,
- faint,
- faintish,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- gone,
- gutless,
- heartless,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- heedless,
- hopeless,
- imbecile,
- impassive,
- impotent,
- in a stupor,
- inanimate,
- inattentive,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- inert,
- inexcitable,
- insouciant,
- jaded,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- Laodicean,
- leaden,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- limber,
- limp,
- lukewarm,
- lumpish,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- mindless,
- moribund,
- negligent,
- nerveless,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- Olympian,
- passive,
- perfunctory,
- phlegmatic,
- pithless,
- pluckless,
- pococurante,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- reckless,
- regardless,
- resigned,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sated,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- sleepy,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- soft,
- somnolent,
- soporific,
- spent,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- strengthless,
- stultified,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- tepid,
- thoughtless,
- torpid,
- turned-off,
- unanxious,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- undiscriminating,
- unemotional,
- unenthusiastic,
- unhardened,
- uninquiring,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unmindful,
- unnerved,
- unsolicitous,
- unstrung,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- wan,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weary,
- withdrawn,
- world-weary