Spiritless vs Insensitive - What's the difference?
spiritless | insensitive | Related terms |
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.
Not expressing normal physical feeling
* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
* 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
* 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
Spiritless is a related term of insensitive.
As adjectives the difference between spiritless and insensitive
is that spiritless is lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion enervated while insensitive is not expressing normal physical feeling.spiritless
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* languidDerived terms
* spiritlessly * spiritlessnessinsensitive
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(en adjective)- It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
- Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive .