Crossword clues for listlessness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Listless \List"less\, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See Lust.]
Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless;
spiritless. `` A listless unconcern.''
--Thomson.
Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain.
--Dryden.
I was listless, and desponding.
--Swift.
Syn: Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent. -- List"less*ly, adv. -- List"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being listless; apathetic indifference; lethargy.
WordNet
n. a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: languor, lassitude]
inactivity resulting from torpidity and lack of vigor or energy [syn: torpidity, torpidness, torpor]
Usage examples of "listlessness".
He was a tall, narrow, disconsolate man who moved with a crabby listlessness.
Henry, in his stultification and listlessness, thought that the jailer was trying to say that lynchers were coming for him that night.
There was something inert about her, a veneer of listlessness redolent of Thorazine, of hospital routine.
That is what brought us to the internment camps, to the listlessness caused by the lack of demon energy upon which we fed so greedily.
We had hiked twenty-two miles in two days—a highly respectable distance for us—but a distinct listlessness and sense of anticlimax, a kind of midmountain lassitude, had set in.
We had hiked twenty-two miles in two days--a highly respectable distance for us--but a distinct listlessness and sense of anticlimax, a kind of midmountain lassitude, had set in.
He watched for his chance all through the afternoon, the while continuing to feign listlessness and fatigue and even nodding off in the saddle, but he did not once even see Robert again.
I went about my tasks in a gray listlessness that first brought me scoldings and then an inquiry as to the state of my belly.