Dispassionate vs Listless - What's the difference?
dispassionate | listless | Related terms |
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Dispassionate is a related term of listless.
As adjectives the difference between dispassionate and listless
is that dispassionate is not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.dispassionate
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Synonyms
* nonpassionate * unpassionateAntonyms
* passionateDerived terms
* dispassionately * dispassionatenesslistless
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless .
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless , stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
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- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”