Crossword clues for lethargy
lethargy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lethargy \Leth"ar*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. -gies (-j[i^]z). [F. l['e]thargie, L. lethargia, Gr. lhqargi`a, fr. lh`qargos forgetful, fr. lh`qh forgetfulness. See Lethe.]
Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.
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A state of inaction or indifference.
Europe lay then under a deep lethargy.
--Atterbury.
Lethargy \Leth"ar*gy\, v. t.
To lethargize. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., litarge, from Old French litargie or directly from Medieval Latin litargia, from Late Latin lethargia, from Greek lethargia "forgetfulness," from lethargos "forgetful," originally "inactive through forgetfulness," from lethe "forgetfulness" (see latent) + argos "idle" (see argon). The form with -th- is from 1590s in English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) A condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns. (from 14th c.) 2 A state of extreme torpor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion or interest; loosely, sluggishness, laziness. (from 14th c.)
WordNet
n. a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) [syn: lassitude, sluggishness]
weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy [syn: inanition, lassitude]
inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy [syn: languor, sluggishness, phlegm]
Wikipedia
Lethargy was a technical death metal band formed in Rochester, New York in 1992 and disbanded in December 1999. Their last performance was on Christmas night of 1999. Drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher would later appear in Today Is the Day and Mastodon. Guitarist and vocalist Erik Burke is currently active in Nuclear Assault, Sulaco, Kalibas, Brutal Truth, and B.C.T. (Blatant Crap Taste).
Lethargy is a state of tiredness, weariness, fatigue, or lack of energy. It can be accompanied by depression, decreased motivation, or apathy. Lethargy can be a normal response to inadequate sleep, overexertion, overworking, stress, lack of exercise, or boredom, or a symptom of a disorder. When part of a normal response, lethargy often resolves with rest, adequate sleep, decreased stress, and good nutrition.
Usage examples of "lethargy".
After their civil and domestic wars, the subjects of the Abbassides, awakening from this mental lethargy, found leisure and felt curiosity for the acquisition of profane science.
Burnfingers Begay had lain, their early morning lethargy was swept aside by professional concern.
Something that spoke of far more than weariness or the fierceness of the battle past, and sliced through the lethargy of heat that had dulled her senses.
Hair loss, lethargy, tingling of the hands and feet, slurred speech It was thallium poisoning.
Maijstral reported twice a week, giving a general picture of deepening discontent among the yardbirds, but they were afflicted by a soggy lethargy which must wait for the heat of summer to dry it, the spark of a leader, a Mizzi or equivalent, to touch it into anything more explosive.
Nantes, who was magnetized by a commercial traveler, remained for two days in a state of lethargy, and for three hours Dr.
I mean a torpitude of the moral powers, that may be called, a lethargy of conscience.
Salida was dazed by the lethargy of his wounds, and the shock of watching his younger sons die under the British bayonets He looked for them in childlike bewilderment, but their broken bodies were lost under the trampling hoofs.
Finally, very much later, when the heat of the afternoon had dwindled and the lethargy of a well-spent day enveloped the occupants of room 202, the only Absarokee prospecting for gold in Diamond City left the soft bed and warm woman and headed north out of Virginia City to his cabin on the mountaintop.
DOWN in the lobby, the lethargy of Alfredo Morales came to a sudden end.
The animal faculties coincide with Lethargy, Sleep, and Nutrition, thus favoring organic restoration.
This inhibits the binding of your thyroid hormones so you may induce a hypothyroid condition, which can cause weight gain and lethargy.
Riding trains and trucks day and night through towns, farmlands, dust storms, blistering deserts, and snowy mountain passes, he had fallen into a lethargy in which-especially at night-fever dreams and reality had run together.
Something might be necessary, he observed, to excite the affections of the common people, who were sunk in languor and lethargy, and therefore he supposed that the new concomitants of methodism might probably produce so desirable an effect.
A cry more prolonged than the others and ending in a series of groans effectually roused me from my drowsy lethargy.