Listless vs Shiftless - What's the difference?
listless | shiftless |
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
* 1818 , , Frankenstein , ch. 18:
* 1861 , , The Stokesley Secret , ch. 6:
* 1901 , , The Hero , ch. 21:
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lazy, unmotivated
untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job
As adjectives the difference between listless and shiftless
is that listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness while shiftless is lazy, unmotivated.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.”