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lackadaisical
adjective
1 lackadaisical
Lacking spirit or liveliness:
— A lackadaisical attempt.
synonyms: dreamy, languid, languorous.
Roget 683:
inactive;
motionless
etc.
265;
unoccupied
etc.
(doing nothing)
681;
unbusied†.
indolent,
lazy,
slothful,
idle,
lusk†,
remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine,
heavy,
dull,
leaden,
lumpish†;
exanimate†,
soulless;
listless;
drony†,
dronish†;
lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory,
laggard;
lagging
etc.
v.;
slow
etc.
275;
rusty,
flagging;
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle;
pottering
etc.
v.;
shilly-shally
etc.
(irresolute)
605.
sleeping,
etc.
v.;
asleep;
fast asleep,
dead asleep,
sound asleep;
in a sound sleep;
sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose;
in the arms of Morpheus,
in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy,
sleepful†;
dozy†,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent†,
lethargic,
lethargical†;
somnifacient†;
statuvolent†,
statuvolic†;
heavy,
heavy with sleep;
napping;
somnific†,
somniferous;
soporous†,
soporific,
soporiferous†;
hypnotic;
balmy,
dreamy;
unawakened,
unawakened.
sedative
etc.
174.
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Roget 866:
indifferent,
cold,
frigid,
lukewarm;
cool,
cool as a cucumber;
unconcerned,
insouciant,
phlegmatic,
pococurante†,
easygoing,
devil-may-care,
careless,
listless,
lackadaisical;
half-hearted;
unambitious,
unaspiring,
undesirous†,
unsolicitous†,
unattracted.
[indifferent toward people]
aloof,
unapproachable,
remote;
uncaring.
unattractive,
unalluring,
undesired,
undesirable,
uncared for,
unwished†,
unvalued,
all one to.
insipid
etc.
391;
vain.
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Roget 837:
cheerless,
joyless,
spiritless;
uncheerful,
uncheery†;
unlively†;
unhappy
etc.
828;
melancholy,
dismal,
somber,
dark,
gloomy,
triste [Fr.],
clouded,
murky,
lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary,
flat;
dull,
dull as a beetle,
dull as ditchwater†;
depressing
etc.
v..
melancholy as a gib cat;"
oppressed with melancholy,
a prey to melancholy;
downcast,
downhearted;
down in the mouth,
down in one's luck;
heavy-hearted;
in the dumps,
down in the dumps,
in the suds,
in the sulks,
in the doldrums;
in doleful dumps,
in bad humor;
sullen;
mumpish†,
dumpish,
mopish†,
moping;
moody,
glum;
sulky
etc.
(discontented)
832;
out of sorts,
out of humor,
out of heart,
out of spirits;
ill at ease,
low spirited,
in low spirits,
a cup too low;
weary
etc.
841;
discouraged,
disheartened;
desponding;
chapfallen†,
chopfallen†,
jaw fallen,
crest fallen.
sad,
pensive,
penseroso [It],
tristful†;
dolesome†,
doleful;
woebegone;
lacrymose,
lachrymose,
in tears,
melancholic,
hypped†,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious†,
saturnine,
splenetic;
lackadaisical.
serious,
sedate,
staid,
stayed;
grave as a judge,
grave as an undertaker,
grave as a mustard pot;
sober,
sober as a judge,
solemn,
demure;
grim;
grim-faced,
grim-visaged;
rueful,
wan,
long-faced.
disconsolate;
unconsolable,
inconsolable;
forlorn,
comfortless,
desolate,
desole [Fr.],
sick at heart;
soul sick,
heart sick;
au desespoir [Fr.];
in despair
etc.
859;
lost.
overcome;
broken down,
borne down,
bowed down;
heartstricken
etc.
(mental suffering)
828†;
cut up,
dashed,
sunk;
unnerved,
unmanned;
down fallen,
downtrodden;
broken-hearted;
careworn.
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2 lackadaisical
Idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way.
Moby thesaurus: Micawberish, apathetic, ataractic, backward, benumbed, blase, bored, careless, casual, cold, cool, dallying, dead, debilitated, degage, delaying, devil-may-care, dilatory, dillydallying, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, easygoing, emasculated, enervated, exanimate, faineant, foot-dragging, free and easy, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, idle, inactive, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, indolent, inert, inexcitable, insouciant, jaded, laggard, lagging, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lazy, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lingering, listless, loitering, lukewarm, lumpish, mindless, moribund, negligent, nonchalant, numb, offhand, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, pooped, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, regardless, remiss, romantic, sated, sentimental, shuffling, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tepid, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexcitable, unexcited, unimpressed, uninspired, uninterested, unmindful, unmoved, unsolicitous, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary ... show more.
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