Lethargy
['leθədʒɪ] or ['lɛθɚdʒi]
Definition
(noun.) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness).
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.
(n.) A state of inaction or indifference.
(v. t.) To lethargize.
Typed by Humphrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Stupor, torpor, COMA, stupefaction, hypnotism, stupidity, morbid drowsiness.
Typist: Meg
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Drowsiness, torpor, oblivion, stupor, swoon, trance
ANT:Vigilance, alertness, liveness, mindfulness, wakefulness, alacrity, activity,life
Editor: William
Definition
n. heavy unnatural slumber: dullness.—v.t. (Shak.) to make lethargic.—adjs. Lethar′gic -al pertaining to lethargy: unnaturally sleepy: dull.—adv. Lethar′gically.—n. Lethar′gicness the state of being lethargic: morbid sleepiness.—v.t. Leth′argise.
Editor: Shanna
Examples
- That Tuesday afternoon the transient doze--more like lethargy than sleep--which sometimes abridged the long days, had stolen over her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and protracted fatigue. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The gaunt rooms, deserted for years upon years, seemed to have settled down into a gloomy lethargy from which nothing could rouse them again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When I'm equally lowered all over, lethargy sets in. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That gentleman had gradually passed through the various stages which precede the lethargy produced by dinner, and its consequences. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She generally lies in a kind of lethargy all the afternoon, and wakes up about six or seven. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I did what little could be done to assist that opportunity, and by-and-bye she sank into a lethargy, and lay like the dead. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He had gradually dropped to the floor, and lay there in a lethargy, worn out. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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