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listless

adj
/ˈlɪstlɪs/

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English lystles English listless From Middle English lystles, equivalent to list (“desire”) + -less. Compare German lustlos and Dutch lusteloos (“lethargic, listless”). Doublet of lustless.

  1. inherited from lystles

Definitions

  1. Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.

    • I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.
    • What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless, stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
    • The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at listless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01listless02liveliness03lively04manifesting05manifest06obscure07faint08languid

A definitional loop anchored at listless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at listless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA