Listless vs Enervate - What's the difference?
listless | enervate |
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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* 1861 , , The Stokesley Secret , ch. 6:
* 1901 , , The Hero , ch. 21:
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(lb) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
(lb) To weaken morally or mentally.
(lb) To partially or completely remove a nerve.
As adjectives the difference between listless and enervate
is that listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness while enervate is made feeble; weakened.As a verb enervate is
(lb) to reduce strength or energy; debilitate.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.
John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time :
- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”