Avid vs Lackadaisical - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between avid and lackadaisical

is that avid is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy while lackadaisical is showing no interest or enthusiasm.

(en adjective)

enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy

I'm an avid reader.

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We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.

* avidly * avidity

(en adjective)

Showing no interest or enthusiasm.

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I could hear the sound of the janitor's lackadaisical scrubbing against the wooden floor.

the lackadaisical look on his face

* (showing no interest or enthusiasm) languid, listless, unenthusiastic, uninterested * See also

* lackadaisically * lackadaisicalness