Lethargic - English meaning

adjective

Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

Usage examples:

An apathetic electorate

adjective

Showing no interest or energy and unwilling to take action, especially over something important

Usage examples:

Young people today are so apathetic about politics., don't be so apathetic - how are you going to g…

adjective

Sleepy and lethargic; half asleep.

Usage examples:

The wine had made her drowsy

adjective

Feeling sleepy esp. when it is not the usual time to sleep

Usage examples:

The room is so warm it’s making me drowsy.

adjective

Lacking interest or excitement.

Usage examples:

Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

verb

Make or become dull or less intense.

Usage examples:

Time dulls the memory

adjective

Not interesting or exciting; boring

Usage examples:

Many of the courtroom events were dull and routine., the lecture was dry, dull, and full of statist…

adjective

Drained of energy or vitality.

Usage examples:

Daniel felt too enervated to resist

verb

Make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality.

Usage examples:

The heat enervated us all

verb

Past simple and past participle of enervate

verb

Cause (someone) to feel exhausted.

Usage examples:

They were fatigued by their journey

noun

Extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness.

Usage examples:

He was nearly dead with fatigue

noun

Weakness in metal or other materials caused by repeated variations of stress.

Usage examples:

Metal fatigue

adjective

(of a person) avoiding work; lazy.

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Idle students

verb

Spend time doing nothing.

Usage examples:

Four men were idling outside the shop

adjective

Not working, not active, or doing nothing

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Idle factories, the machines are standing idle because there are no spare parts., idle speculation,…

adjective

Not engaging in or involving any or much physical activity.

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An inactive lifestyle

adjective

Doing nothing

Usage examples:

Knee surgery will keep him physically inactive for two months., about half of the club members are …

adjective

Doing nothing or not doing what you have usually done

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An inactive member of an advisory board, voters who have not participated in an election in three y…

adjective

Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.

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They were indolent and addicted to a life of pleasure

adjective

Without real interest or effort; lazy

Usage examples:

I was an indolent creature who could not imagine action.

adjective

Lacking the ability or strength to move.

Usage examples:

She lay inert in her bed

adjective

Not moving or not able to move

Usage examples:

The inert figure of a man lay in the front of the car., an inert gas

adjective

(of a person, manner, or gesture) having or showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort.

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His languid demeanour irritated her

adjective

Lacking energy, or causing a lack of energy or enthusiasm

Usage examples:

He sat on the porch enjoying the delicious, languid warmth of a summer afternoon.

adjective

Unwilling to work or use energy.

Usage examples:

He was too lazy to cook

adjective

Dead or apparently dead.

Usage examples:

His lifeless body was taken from the river

adjective

Dead or appearing to be dead

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A lifeless body, fig. the performance was boring and lifeless (= lacking interest or energy).

adjective

(of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm.

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Bouts of listless depression

adjective

Tired and weak, and lacking energy or interest

Usage examples:

As the tennis match continued in the 90° heat, his play grew listless and he made a number of errors.

adjective

Used to describe an economy, stock market, etc. in which there is not much activity or trade

Usage examples:

Stocks closed mixed in listless trading ahead of saturday's presidential elections.

adverb

Scottish form of not, used after an auxiliary verb.

Usage examples:

We couldna speak to them

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 11, a soft silver-white reactive metal of the alkali metal group.

The chemical element sodium.

adjective

Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.

Usage examples:

The women were portrayed as passive victims

noun

Denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them ).

Lacking in energy or will

adjective

(of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

Usage examples:

The phlegmatic british character

adjective

Characterized by laziness, indolence, and a lack of ambition.

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A shiftless lot of good-for-nothings

adjective

Not having determination or purpose

Usage examples:

He says only the shiftless are unemployed.

adjective

Needing or ready for sleep.

Usage examples:

The wine had made her sleepy

adjective

Tired and needing sleep

Usage examples:

She stumbled sleepily into the bathroom.

adjective

Lazy.

Usage examples:

Fatigue made him slothful

adjective

Moving or operating, or designed to do so, only at a low speed; not quick or fast.

Usage examples:

Until recently diesel cars were slow and noisy

adverb

At a slow pace; slowly.

Usage examples:

The train went slower and slower

verb

Reduce one's speed or the speed of a vehicle or process.

Usage examples:

The train slowed to a halt

adjective

Slow-moving or inactive.

Usage examples:

A sluggish stream

adjective

Sleepy; drowsy.

Usage examples:

My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, slack, …

adjective

Almost sleeping, or causing sleep

Usage examples:

A somnolent summer's afternoon, the somnolent villages further north

adjective

In need of sleep or rest; weary.

Usage examples:

Fisher rubbed his tired eyes

verb

Feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep.

Usage examples:

Soon the ascent grew steeper and he began to tire

adjective

Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

Usage examples:

We sat around in a torpid state

plural noun

(at oxford university) a series of races for eight-oared rowing boats held in hilary term.

Usage examples:

In my first year i rowed in torpids

adjective

Not active; moving or thinking slowly, especially as a result of being lazy or feeling that you want to sleep

Usage examples:

If you have a sudden loss of cabin pressure at 20,000 feet, passengers will become torpid and then …

adjective

Feeling or showing extreme tiredness, especially as a result of excessive exertion.

Usage examples:

He gave a long, weary sigh

verb

Cause to become tired.

Usage examples:

She was wearied by her persistent cough

adjective

Very tired, esp. from hard work

Usage examples:

Even my brain is weary tonight!, i dragged myself wearily out of bed., my weariness was so great, i…