listless
IPA: ɫˈɪstɫʌs
adjective
- Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Examples of "listless" in Sentences
- He became dull and listless.
- The man was somewhat listless.
- His listlessness was considered rude.
- At home, Catherine is listless and unhappy.
- He appears listless and unmotivated in the monster court.
- At this point in the calendar there are two types of listlessness.
- He was leaning to the wall and showing an attitude of listlessness.
- He is variously described as having a powerful but listless intellect.
- Feelings of laziness may be a symptom of clinical depression or listlessness.
- Fatigue, listlessness, and psychosomatic worries are also part of the syndrome.
- After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues,
- She could do nothing for herself, she could only obey Joan's dictates, and this she did in listless misery.
- Design, were pretty lethargic, a word that means "listless" - and also a word Wiggins might not know how to spell.
- Since I arrived not a leaf has stirred, not a bird has sung, the tides ebb and flow in listless and soundless ripples.
- A shadow was on the threshold, and before I had recalled my listless fancy, in tripped Frances Sutherland, herself, feigning not to see me.
- Hence, in this anarchic foam of tastes and distastes, a kind of listless blur, gradually appears the figure of a bodily enigma, requiring complicity or irritation.
- But he grew up, I think, with -- I don't want to use the word listless; I'm very careful -- with a sense of following in the family footsteps to some extent, but not in the political vein.
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