Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. lacking zest or vivacity;
- Example: "he was listless and bored"
2. marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm;
- Example: "a dispirited and divided Party"
- Example: "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation"
[syn: dispirited, listless]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Listless \List"less\, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See Lust.] Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. " A listless unconcern." --Thomson. [1913 Webster] Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] I was listless, and desponding. --Swift. Syn: Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent. -- List"less*ly, adv. -- List"less*ness, n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "listless": Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, ataractic, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, bored, careless, casual, chicken, comatose, cool, cowardly, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, distant, dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, easygoing, effete, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gone, gutless, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, imbecile, impassive, impotent, in a stupor, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inert, inexcitable, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, lukewarm, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, mindless, moribund, negligent, nerveless, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pithless, pluckless, pococurante, pooped, powerless, reckless, regardless, resigned, rubbery, sapless, sated, sinewless, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, soft, somnolent, soporific, spent, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stolid, strengthless, stultified, stupefied, supine, tepid, thoughtless, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unhardened, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unnerved, unsolicitous, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weak, weakly, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

