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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking ardor or vigor or energy;
- Example: "a spiritless reply to criticism"

2. evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant;
- Example: "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"
- Example: "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott
- Example: "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"
- Example: "was submissive and subservient"
[syn: meek, spiritless]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spiritless \Spir"it*less\, a. 1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. [1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. [1913 Webster] A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body." --Greenhill. [1913 Webster] -- Spir"it*less*ly, adv. -- Spir"it*less*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spiritless adj 1: lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism" [ant: spirited] 2: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient" [syn: meek, spiritless]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

187 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiritless": Laodicean, Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, arid, asleep, autistic, barren, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bloodless, blue, blunt, bowed-down, cast down, catatonic, characterless, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, colorless, comatose, cool, dashed, dead, deceased, defunct, dejected, departed, depressed, desensitized, despairing, despondent, desponding, detached, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, disinterested, dismal, dispassionate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drooping, droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, emotionally dead, emotionless, empty, etiolated, exanimate, extinct, fade, feeling low, flat, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, gritless, gutless, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, hopeless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, in a stupor, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, inane, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid, insouciant, insusceptible, jejune, languid, languishing, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, low, low-spirited, nonchalant, nonemotional, numb, numbed, objective, obtuse, out of touch, pale, pallid, passionless, passive, pedestrian, pessimistic, phlegmatic, pining, plodding, pluckless, pointless, poky, ponderous, resigned, self-absorbed, slack, slow, sluggish, solemn, soporific, soulless, spunkless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stoic, stuffy, stupefied, subdued, submissive, suicidal, superficial, supine, tasteless, tedious, torpid, unaffectionate, unanimated, uncaring, unconcerned, uncourageous, undaring, unemotional, unfeeling, ungallant, unheroic, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, uninterested, unintrepid, unlively, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsoldierlike, unsoldierly, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvaliant, unvalorous, vapid, weary of life, withdrawn, woebegone, wooden, world-weary