Unheeding vs Listless - What's the difference?
unheeding | listless | Related terms |
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Unheeding is a related term of listless.
As adjectives the difference between unheeding and listless
is that unheeding is showing disregard while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.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.
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- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”