Dozy vs Listless - What's the difference?
dozy | listless | Related terms |
Quite sleepy or tired.
Intellectually slow.
(carpentry) Decaying, rotten, spongy (wood).
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Dozy is a related term of listless.
As adjectives the difference between dozy and listless
is that dozy is quite sleepy or tired while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.dozy
English
Adjective
(er)- Jim is a dozy child.
Synonyms
* doty (rotten wood)listless
English
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.”