Spiritless
['spɪrɪtlɪs] or ['spɪrɪtləs]
Definition
(adj.) lacking ardor or vigor or energy; 'a spiritless reply to criticism' .
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Definition
(a.) Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
(a.) Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
(a.) Having no breath; extinct; dead.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Lifeless, breathless, extinct, dead.[2]. Dejected, depressed, discouraged, dispirited, low-spirited, in low spirits.[3]. Dull, torpid, sluggish, cold, apathetic, phlegmatic, languid, soulless, feeble, unenterprising.[4]. Heavy, stupid, dull, frigid, tame, prosaic, prosy, insipid, uninteresting.
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Examples
- She was a poor, empty-headed, spiritless woman--what you call a born drudge--and I was now and then not averse to plaguing her by taking Anne away. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was not a sound in the gloom beyond the spiritless stir of the summer wind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I inquired despairingly, for I was both tired and spiritless. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Weary, jaded, and spiritless, Eliza dragged herself up to the door, with her child lying in a heavy sleep on her arm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But Annie, in a spiritless unhappy way, only went whither she was led, and seemed to have no care for anything. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He sighed, and then said, in a spiritless tone, Just as you like, Sir. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They encountered armies, large and disciplined but spiritless armies, and defeated them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have heerd they're a pack of spiritless, down-trodden men; welly clemmed to death; too much dazed wi' clemming to know when they're put upon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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