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[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.
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2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
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A men so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. --Shak.
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3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body."
--Greenhill.
[1913 Webster] -- Spir"it*less*ly, adv. --
Spir"it*less*ness, n.
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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