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spiritless
adjective
1 spiritless
Lacking ardor or vigor or energy.
Roget 823:
insensible,
unconscious;
impassive,
impassible;
blind to,
deaf to,
dead to;
unsusceptible,
insusceptible;
unimpressionable†,
unimpressible†;
passionless,
spiritless,
heartless,
soulless;
unfeeling,
unmoral.
apathetic;
leuco-†,
phlegmatic;
dull,
frigid;
cold blooded,
cold hearted;
cold as charity;
flat,
maudlin,
obtuse,
inert,
supine,
sluggish,
torpid,
torpedinous†,
torporific†;
sleepy
etc.
(inactive)
683;
languid,
half-hearted,
tame;
numbed;
comatose;
anaesthetic
etc.
376;
stupefied,
chloroformed,
drugged,
stoned;
palsy-stricken.
indifferent,
lukewarm;
careless,
mindless,
regardless;
inattentive
etc.
458;
neglectful
etc.
460;
disregarding.
unconcerned,
nonchalant,
pococurante†,
insouciant,
sans souci [Fr.];
unambitious
etc.
866.
unaffected,
unruffled,
unimpressed,
uninspired,
unexcited,
unmoved,
unstirred,
untouched,
unshocked†,
unstruck†;
unblushing
etc.
(shameless)
885;
unanimated;
vegetative.
callous,
thick-skinned,
hard-nosed,
pachydermatous,
impervious;
hardened;
inured,
casehardened;
steeled against,
proof against;
imperturbable
etc.
(inexcitable)
826†;
unfelt.
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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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Roget 862:
coward,
cowardly;
fearful,
shy;
timid,
timorous;
skittish;
poor-spirited,
spiritless,
soft,
effeminate.
weak-minded;
infirm of purpose
etc.
605;
weak-hearted,
fainthearted,
chickenhearted,
henhearted†,
lilyhearted,
pigeon-hearted;
white-livered†,
lily-livered,
milk-livered†;
milksop,
smock-faced;
unable to say 'boo' to a goose.
dastard,
dastardly;
base,
craven,
sneaking,
dunghill,
recreant;
unwarlike,
unsoldier-like.
in face a lion but in heart a deer. "
unmanned;
frightened
etc.
860.
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2 spiritless
Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant.
synonym: meek.
Polish: potulny
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