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Listless vs Writhing - What's the difference?

listless | writhing |

As an adjective listless

is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.

As a verb writhing is

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As a noun writhing is

a twisting struggle.

listless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
  • * 1818 , , Frankenstein , ch. 18:
    • 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 .
  • * 1861 , , The Stokesley Secret , ch. 6:
    • 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!
  • * 1901 , , The Hero , ch. 21:
    • The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
  • * 2005 Nov. 29, Aryn Baker, " John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time :
    • “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”

    Derived terms

    * listlessly * listlessness

    Anagrams

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    writhing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A twisting struggle.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 27, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But a video, taken from above, projects these writhings as if she were flying at top speed in a tunnel above traffic that’s whooshing past in the opposite direction. }}