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lethargic | lethargize |

As an adjective lethargic

is sluggish, slow.

As a verb lethargize is

to make lethargic.

lethargic

English

Alternative forms

* lethargick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • sluggish, slow
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=[That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.}}
  • indifferent, apathetic

    • Synonyms

    * torpid * lazy * unmoving

    Related terms

    * alethic, alethiology, philalethia * lethargy * Lethe

    lethargize

    English

    Verb

    (lethargiz)
  • To make lethargic.
    • All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. — Coleridge.
    (Webster 1913)