Listless vs Spiritless - What's the difference?
listless | spiritless | Related terms |
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
:The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.
Listless is a related term of spiritless.
As adjectives the difference between listless and spiritless
is that listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness while spiritless is lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion enervated.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.”